Sunday, December 11, 2011

Making the Invisible Visible

 
 

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via Colossal by Christopher Jobson on 12/5/11

Making the Invisible Visible street art

Making the Invisible Visible street art

Making the Invisible Visible street art

For a second year, street art collective Mentalgassi has partnered with Amnesty International and Wieden + Kennedy creative team Lisa Jelliffe and Kirsten Rutherford to help highlight some of the year's most prominent human rights abuse cases playing out around the world. Via Unurth:

This year the German street art collective have created work that appears in 26 sites across Wales, Ireland, Germany and Denmark. The 6 individuals highlighted in this year's work include Fatima Hussein Badi, who faces the death penalty in Yemen after an unfair trial, Jabbar Savalan, who is in prison in Azerbaijan for his peaceful anti-government activism (including comments he made on Facebook), and Natalia Estemirova, a Russian human rights activist whose murder has not been brought to justice.

Mentalgassi transformed large portaits of each individual into segmented strips that are applied to the slats of fences. At first the images aren't readily visible and only come into focus suddenly from extreme angles, reinforcing the campaign's theme, 'making the invisible visible'. (via unurth)


 
 

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