A graffiti with 5 faces: Lenin, Luther King, Malcolm X, Angela Davis and Floyd. Joirt for the first time brings together 5 characters against racism
Five faces, one after the other, to remind us that racism is the stuff to be eradicated from the culture of too many people. Against intolerance and towards integration, street art has also been talking about him for some time and today it does so through the urban artist Jorit who on the roofs of Barra, the eastern outskirts of his Naples, wanted to emphasize the horror of the killing by the African American George Floyd.
A beautiful graffiti with 5 faces: Lenin, Martin Luther King, Malcom X, Angela Davis and Floyd himself. For the first time, the Italian-Dutch street artist brings together 5 characters in a single work, created on a building in the Bisignano district.
From Ponticelli to the migrant child of Palma Campania, from the historic center of the Neapolitan capital with San Gennaro to the face of Pasolini in Scampia next to whom he painted the face of Angela Davis at the time, passing through Maradona and Ilaria Cucchi, Jorit with the his works encourages debate, memory, justice, equality, and this time he does so with his “Time to change the world”. It's time to change this world.
Posted by Jorit on Thursday, June 4, 2020
Jorit's new mural brings a novelty: George Floyd is shot in the center, frontally, with red tears running down his cheeks instead of the tribal signs that characterize all the artist's graffiti, thus indicating belonging to the human tribe. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X are portrayed in profile, Lenin and Davis turned in three quarters.
Martin Luther King: history and famous phrases
In the post on social media, Jorit uses the words of Roberto Vallepiano:
“Please, please, I can't breathe. Please friend, please ... I can't breathe. I can't breathe ... Please, I can't breathe, officer ... I can't breathe ... Don't kill me, please! "
These are the last words of #GeorgeFloyd, a 46-year-old African American worker who lived in a suburb of #Minneapolis and worked in a restaurant closed in March due to the lockdown.
His tragic words on the verge of death: "I can't breathe", "I can't breathe", have become the political testament of tens of thousands of people who took to the streets in the US since yesterday against yet another unpunished murder of a system ferocious and ruthless against the weakest ".
Source: Jorit Facebook
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