Street Art changes face, becomes 2.0 and thanks to new technologies it arrives in the Amazon rainforest to protest against deforestation and to protect indigenous peoples.
La Street Art it changes face, becomes 2.0 and thanks to new technologies it arrives in the Amazon rainforest to protest against and to protect indigenous peoples.
The artist Philippe Écharou has decided to exploit technology to expand the possibilities of expression of Street Art and to take it where roads do not really exist, for example in the forest.
The artist ha projected faces on the trees of the Amazon rainforest. The faces match those of some members of the Surui tribe, a group of Brazilian indigenous people who are constant victims of the devastation caused by deforestation and gold miners in the Rondonia and Mato Grosso regions.
“When you cut a tree it is like killing a man” - said the artist to explain the meaning of his project. The faces of those who populate the forest and those who protect it emerge among the trunks of the trees. Indigenous peoples could not live without their forest.
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No trees were damaged to bring the artist's idea to life and the hope is that this unusual project will bring attention back to the need for save the Amazon rainforest from deforestation e di protect indigenous peoples by those who want to drive them from their lands if not eliminate them.
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The artist's project, in collaboration with the Aquaverde Association, is used to make the world discover human and ecological disaster caused by deforestation in the Amazon, the green lung of our planet.
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The artist has photographed all his projections so that they can now be available to the whole world in the form of images and to create exhibitions to raise awareness against deforestation and in defense of indigenous peoples.
To find out more, see the video.
Marta Albè
Photo source: Philippe Echarou
