Artist Makes Murals That Deal With Human Complexities

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Tamara Djurovic grew up in Argentina where there’s a rich culture surrounding public spaces and murals have always played an important role.

Djurovic, aka Hyuro, centers most of her work on portraying the complex side of a person. She explores how our inner lives affect the relationships with ourselves and with others. “I’m not interested in these subjects only from a representation perspective, but as well as a way to keep understanding and knowing myself and somehow try to understand, or digest better the world where we live in,” she told Colossal. By painting huge images of different emotions and everyday moments, she expresses the complexities of humanity in a creative and powerful way.

This year, she has painted enormous murals from different countries such as Spain, Brazil, Italy, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Check out her latest creations below.

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¨Process of immigration¨- Vilvoorde, Belgium 2018. For this project I was asked to speak about the Spanish immigration in Vilvoorde. One in three inhabitants of Vilvoorde is of Spanish descent. Noteworthy is that almost all of them come from the same village, from Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo, a place in the province of Córdoba in Andalusia. In the first decade of the twentieth century, the mining area of Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo was one of the most important industrial centers of Andalusia. Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo was therefore primarily a working class city, where the living conditions, as in many other worker cities, were not too good. In the late 1950s, mining activity disappears from Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo. The closure of the ore mines and associated industries results in a strong unemployment. In Belgium, on the other hand, workers were needed. Between 1960 and 1970 many residents emigrate to Belgium to work in the mines and the steel industry and to build a new life. Many settle in Vilvoorde, a city that was expanding its chemical and metalworking industry and needed skilled workers. When you walk around Vilvoorde, the Spanish presence is noticeable. You constantly hear Spanish conversations on the street. There are Spanish cafes, Spanish shops and there is a tapas restaurant. The image represents the immigration process, the blanket refers to the culture, the customs that we carry within us. Many special thanks to @jeroen.matthys and to everyone that took part during the process. xx

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