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"Essé Dabla [Française d’origine togolaise qui a pris part à la 10e édition du festival Paris Hip Hop, qui s’est achevée lundi 6 juillet] est installée à Accra, au Ghana, où elle travaille pour Yoyo Tinz, une association consacrée au hip-hop.
Le graffiti, est apparu dans les années 2000 dans ce pays, mais le mouvement se développe lentement, le principal frein étant la difficulté des artistes à se fournir en matériel.[...] [...] A Dakar, une ville qui connaît un engouement pour ce mouvement, [...] le Festigraff réunit chaque année depuis 2010 des graffeurs du monde entier. D’après Atibou Diallo, directeur du Festigraff, les premiers graffs africains apparaissent au Sénégal en 1989. A cette époque, le ministère de l’éducation et de la jeunesse lance l’opération Set Setal visant à nettoyer et embellir les quartiers, notamment grâce à l’art. « Le graffiti africain est très engagé socialement et spirituellement. Beaucoup d’artistes européens mettent l’accent sur leur blaze [leur surnom]. En Afrique, le graffeur doit plutôt avoir un message fort qui doit parler à la jeunesse ou à l’Etat », explique Attibou Diallo qui cite l’exemple de Sincelor au Bénin ou Trez au Togo. Progressivement, l’art du graffiti s’installe aussi au Maghreb. C’est le cas en Tunisie, où depuis la révolution de 2011, la scène hip-hop connaît un essor. « L’année dernière, il y a eu un festival à Djerba. Des artistes du monde entier ont repeint tout un village », rapporte MarOne. Ce photographe expose au festival Paris Hip Hop des portraits de grands noms de la scène hip-hop prises lors des six précédentes éditions de la manifestation parisienne." ...
> Extraits de l'article de J.-A. Essosso sur www.lemonde.fr à retrouver en intégralité en cliquant sur le titre ou sur http://lc.cx/ZYKV
Via Karin Barlet, Ya MANDA
French Street Artist YZ Yseult has begun her own campaign to pay tribute to the fierce female fighters of the 19th Century West African country of Dahomey, who are more commonly referred to as Amazons. A startling narrative of female power not often heard today for some, but as YZ is researching her own history as a descendent from slaves, her portraits reflect a personal impetus to tell these stories with a new force. She has named this series of strong warriors on the street "Amazone".
Earlier this month, The Atlantic's Kriston Capps proposed a curious question: What if Banksy is a woman? In his following analysis, Capps went as far to claim that the cheeky British street artist is "probably" a she, chastising the public ...
Via Street I Am, Thierry Belleguic
"With women making up 34 percent of voters in the Afghanistan presidential election held earlier this month, the celebration of a new era for Afghan women has been dominating the headlines of European and American media. But the fight for women’s rights is far from over in Afghanistan, local street artists Shamsia Hassani and Malina Suliman tell MintPress News. The murals of the country’s most prominent female graffiti writers are — quite literally — drawing attention to struggles and social change in their surroundings and contesting a warped image of Afghan women both locally and internationally."
Street art on the theme of falling sex ratio and gender selection in India and part of a campaign initiated by Population First on the girl child called “Laadli”.
Shamsia Hassani has been called a pioneer of the street art scene in Afghanistan and she's spraying walls in Kabul to combat dangerous gender bias in her home country. As far as the cultish universe of street art is concerned, it’s a man’s world. Often illegal, even the most beautiful graffiti art is entwined with the high-risk activities required to produce it: running from police, climbing through abandoned areas and all of this often happening at night. As Catfight Magazine points out: "Graffiti, guerrilla art and urban activism still convey a stereotypically tough male image, but they are beginning to have other faces."
20% des artistes de street art seraient des femmes. Même si ce milieu reste majoritairement masculin, le graf de rue séduit de plus en plus de femmes.
Via maribigoud, MHB Numerik
"Since the revolution began in 2011, Cairo has witnessed a blossoming of street art expressing voices from many segments of Egyptian society and social movements. The women’s movement, defined in broad terms, was among the first to express its messages of anti-harassment, anti-brutality and freedom of agency on the city’s walls. Many of the images have gone as quickly as they’ve come due to weekly repainting projects by the Ministry of Interior, but luckily they were documented in time by savior photographers and will now live on forever on the interwebz. Here is our round-up of feminist street art in Cairo:..."
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"When you conjure up images of street artists, people like Banksy or Shepard Fairey likely come to mind. What you probably don't think of is -- a woman, because until recently, graffiti art has largely been a boys club. [...] The men-only vibe is changing though. Women artists are beginning to make their mark (literally) and they’ve done it without big name recognition or backing. This week, Lakwena and other female street artists are in Miami for Women on the Walls, an event held at the outdoor street art museum Wynwood Walls to celebrate the women who are bringing “new energy” to the art."
Faith 47, The taming of the beasts, Shanghai. "Street art has always been a male-dominated scene, but an increasing number of female artists are helping to change that. In the past three years, street art by Bambi, dubbed the “female Banksy”, has appeared in London, and in Paris, Princess Hijab has scrawled burqas on to the faces of adverts on the metro. Martha Cooper, an American photographer who has been documenting graffiti since the late 1970s, and who is widely thought of as the “godmother” of street art, says she has noticed an increase in the number of women participating in the scene."
"Women & Street Art in the Middle East" is an article by StreetArtNews contributing writer Shahad Bishara, Shahad is currently based in the Middle East and regularly reports on Street Art in the region. "Despite the street art industry being particularly male dominated across the world, there are also many great women artists in the field such as Faith47, Liliwenn and Bastardilla. Some women graffiti artists face challenges working in a male dominated scene even in the Western world, however female artists in the Middle East face even bigger challenges due to the conservative nature of their societies. One woman creating quite a stir in the scene is Shamsia Hassani, an Afghan graffiti artist and teacher at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Kabul University. Her works often depicts women in burqas, usually painted blue and feminine-like, or fish. The 24- year-old artist is considered to be her country’s first graffiti artist, which is a significant achievement considering its strict views on gender roles. Shamsia has also collaborated with L.A. street artist El Mac on a mural entitled Birds of No Nation for the 7th Asia Pacific Triennial in Australia."
It’s no secret that Melbourne’s street art scene is becoming one of the most prominent in the world.
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Though street art is still a boys’ club, women like ELLE, Swoon and Vexta are trying to change the status quo
Like so many other parts of our society, graffiti and street art tend to be male-dominated art forms. However, a growing number of women are embracing the medium and have managed to break through the competitive scene.
Via malek
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Here, where graffiti is classified as a violation rather than a crime, street artists do not have to hide. Bright murals, often uncompromisingly political, cover public walls, as well as those of home and business owners who, understanding the value (cultural and financial), allow their own properties to be used as a canvas.
Brooklyn artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh's powerful new art project aims to break the silence around street harassment and encourage women to fight back.
"De la Comtesse de Ségur à Grisélidis Réal, la pionnière du Street art est aussi une femme de lettres. L'artiste Miss Tic, rendue célèbre depuis le milieu des années 80 par ses pochoirs de rue, se joue autant des images que des mots. À l'occasion de l'exposition de plusieurs de ses créations dans les bibliothèques de Seine-Saint-Denis, elle revient sur la place majeure qu'occupent la littérature et l'écriture dans sa vie."
Femme Fierce, the largest all-women street art event in the UK, is about to kick off. Here’s our showcase of Britain’s best – Amara Por Dios, Zina, BoxHead, Girls on Top and more.
15 women ruling the street art scene. Picture : Vexta, location : New York.
Sarah Mohanna Al Abdali is part of a generation of contemporary Saudi artists currently experimenting with public art. Born in Jeddah, Sarah Mohanna Al Abdali hails from a family with a rich Hijazi history and has grown up with a deep appreciation of the land, architecture, and heritage of the coastal region of Saudi Arabia, which is a recurring theme in her work. With the ever-changing physical landscape, Al Abdali feels alienated from the contemporary Hijazi city and seeks to share her imagined vision of a place that no longer exists, largely through public art. In this interview, Al Abdali contextualizes her artistic and political commitments and interventions in a fledgling popular art scene in Saudi Arabia.
Aiko's mural on the Bowery Wall in Manhattan, 2012. « Comme le street art est initialement une expression de rue, dans la rue et pour la rue, l’idée reçue est que cette pratique artistique n’est pas pour les femmes, pour peu que, selon l’opinion commune, la rue ne soit pas la place des femmes. Cette idée reçue semble corroborée par le fait que les précurseurs ou les pionniers du street art, que ce soit aux Etats-Unis ou en Europe, sont des hommes (Cornbread, Taki 183, Zlotykamien, Pignon-Ernest, Blek le rat). Elle semble s’appuyer sur l’idée que le graffiti est une pratique « vandale », des mauvais lieux, des mauvais garçons. Malgré leur persévérance et leur créativité les pionnières (Lady Pink, Miss.Tic) restent encore trop souvent méconnues en regard d’une reconnaissance internationale qui réitère les discriminations de genres. Dans un domaine et un milieu qui se prétend pourtant atypique et qui représente en un sens une contre-culture ouverte à une alternative politique, les femmes continuent de rester mineures : elle ne font pas nombre, elles ne font pas autorité. En un sens le marché de l’art du street art répète le conformisme du marché de l’art traditionnel : priorité aux artistes masculins. Comment se fait-il que cette minorité perdure alors même que bon nombre de femmes artistes ont investi la rue, et ont réfléchi leur liberté ? » Le street art au féminin pluriel Colloque, 9 novembre 2013, Paris
Que sont les mots comparés à une image saisissante que des milliers de personnes peuvent admirer? Bien peu de chose. C’est pourquoi les féministes brésiliennes font appel à un nouveau médium: le graffiti. Toute jeune déjà, Panmela Castro aimait flâner avec les garçons. Il était donc naturel pour elle de se joindre à eux lorsqu’ils dessinaient des graffitis. «C’était étrange pour eux, mais j’étais meilleure qu’eux, donc ils me permettaient de rester», se rappelle-t-elle. Maintenant adulte, Castro fait encore des graffitis. En fait, elle est à l’avant-plan d’une brigade de graffeuses féministes brésiliennes.
"Alice Vincent goes to Nuart in Stavanger to meet the female street artists who are breaking down walls. When Aiko Nakagawa speaks, she looks down at her paint-spattered hands. Her nails are varnished a shiny silver, each is adorned with a tiny black crucifix. They’re a little chipped. “It’s hard being a girl and a graffiti artist”, she sighs.As one of the world’s leading practitioners of street art, 38-year-old Nakagawa – who was born in Japan but now lives in Brooklyn, New York – is something of a rarity. The leading figures of international street art may work almost exclusively under aliases (Nakagawa goes by the moniker Lady Aiko or, simply, Aiko) but it is no secret that the overwhelming majority of them are men. .."
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