Mysterious British street artist Banksy has posted a video to Instagram acknowledging a slew of works in Ukraine. Some of the photos, most of them spray-painted on the walls of homes, were discovered days ago. The video released Thursday night is a “make-of” of sorts in which Banksy cuts out and spray-paints stencils, but without showing his face.
One of the works depicts a woman apparently standing on a chair against the facade of a burnt-out house. She wears curlers, a gas mask, a dressing gown and holds a fire extinguisher.
The works, which are mostly in black and white, are also on display: for example, an old man with a long beard sitting in a bathtub in the town of Horenka, scrubbing his back with a large brush. The image was spray-painted on the tiled bathroom wall of a house with a huge hole in the facade.
Other depictions show gymnasts dancing over a bullet’s impact hole with a fluttering ribbon or balancing upside down on mounds of rubble. The black outlines of children can be seen on concrete barricades, apparently using a metal anti-tank barrier as a seesaw.
“In solidarity with the people of Ukraine”
The artist spray-painted a rocket launcher on a rectangular box, the gun of which resembles a penis painted on the wall of a school toilet. In the ruins of a kindergarten, a young judoka throws an adult fighter – whose physique resembles that of Russian President Vladimir Putin – to the ground. At the end is shown an inscription with the words: “In solidarity with the people of Ukraine”.
Source: Krone
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