He returned to his homeland, in Afghanistan, with a very specific goal, that of symbolically mending the wounds of the civil war by filling the walls with his graffiti.
He returned to his homeland, in Afghanistan, with a very specific goal, that of symbolically heal the wounds of the civil war filling the walls with his graffiti.
Kabir Mokamel he is 46 years old and originally from Kabul, after living for years in Australia he decided to bring color to his hometown through street art.
To do this he was inspired by the artist Banksy and along the lines of his murals, Mokamel paints on kilometers of abandoned walls, rubble of destroyed buildings by the Taliban.
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A heart transported in a wheelbarrow, a patch that heals the serious wound of Afghanistan and still big eyes signals from the kajal, are just some of the works created by the artist and a group of supporters.
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The dream is to slowly transform Kabul, a city that is struggling to get up, a city under siege. Therefore, the Afghan artist is linked to Banksy not only for the similarity of the works of street art but also for the revolutionary message that he wants to launch. This is why women are depicted without burquas and this is why if the walls cannot be knocked down, at least they can be transformed.
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The gray concrete blocks are slowly becoming a open-air museumrevolutionary messages and ideologies are launched through hearts, eyes and children.
The first graffiti was made in 2015, the gaze of two eyes in shades of orange with the slogan "I see you", an allusion to the corruption present in Kabul.
Yesterday guns and weapons, today spray cans, paints and brushes. Even art plays its part and the revolution sometimes also begins with a little color in a gray road destroyed by bombs.
Dominella Trunfio
Photo: Kabir Mokamel
