THE ART OF HOMELESS Enri Torres, Judith Romance, Maria Sylva, Laura Lobo
WRIGHT, the artist who was a homeless person Lee Wright, of Chico, California, had been homeless for 15 years before a positive turn of events that allowed him to start living off his natural talent: painting. Wright originally moved to Chico because he is a city that loves art. Two years ago, when he arrived at the Jesus Center - a local organization that offers meals and other assistance to the homeless - the staff provided him with supplies and a place to paint during the day. At night, Wright went to sleep behind a building wedged between his paint and garbage cans. But when a volunteer at the center saw Wright's work, he was able to help him get a commission for a painting. From there, more commissions were achieved and Wright continued since then.
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SKID ROBOT PROJECT Skid Robot is an American graffiti artist belonging to the street-art movement. His true identity is still unknown, but he made himself known by drawing the dreams of the Los Angeles homeless, and then publishing his works on his Instagram account. Like a dream merchant, after dark, he sets out to roam the streets of Skid Row (Los Angeles) to paint what he imagines to be the dreams of homeless sleepers. An illegal but very original way to awaken consciences and especially to bring another view of passersby on people living on the street. https://www.impactmagazine.fr/skid-robot-project-utiliser-le-street-art-pour-faire-valoir-la-cause-des-sans-abris/
ART TO THE MARGIN 'Art to the Margin', is a project initiated in France and that now has moved to Spain, has a double objective: to tell, far from stereotypes, a new history of the homeless and on the other hand to use art as a means of expression and personal valorization to reintegrate into society The Arrels Foundation, which has promoted the exhibition together with Yanis Lammari and the Toulouse Business School (TBS), attended 1,900 people of the more than 3,000 who live in the streets of Barcelona, ​especially in the last cold wave that has hit Spain . Arrels has been working in Barcelona since 1987. The foundation has an open center for homeless people to take a shower, keep their belongings in the slogans and receive advice and help to get out of their situation of social exclusion. In the image, one of the photographs selected in the exhibition by Salvador Vergara.
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VAGABONG IN CHINA
It all began with a photo that a passer-by from the Chinese city of Ningbo published on the Internet without knowing that the image of the man who had attracted his attention would cause such a stir in social networks. The character in question is a beggar whose disheveled appearance and bohemian touches made him become a fashion icon and win fans on the Internet, who baptized him as Brother Sharp (elegant brother).
“HACEMOS VISIBLE, LO INVISIBLE� Edgar Dos Santos
Eight 'without roof' show their reality in a photographic exhibition in Lleida The Social and Public Health Services of the City of Lleida and the Center d'Art la Panera have launched a new artistic project carried out by eight 'homeless' people, of the seventy who live in the city, which includes a photographic exhibition . The exhibition is the result of the photography workshop 'hacemos visible, lo invisible', directed by the photographer Edgar dos Santos. Each participant has been given a one-use camera with which he has been able to portray and show their reality, their tastes and interests.
“VIDAS INACABADAS� an exhibition to make the homeless visible
The exhibition, made up of nine large black and white portraits, wants to make visible the people who make up the Homelessfonts project, which transforms the calligraphy of people who have lived on the street in typographies. All these people know what it is to live on the street and have intervened in each work by writing on it the sensations generated by the fact of being portrayed in large, hieratic and forceful, asserting their presence before society. They are the ones who look at the spectators, because they neither want to be nor are invisible. https://www.arrelsfundacio.org/es/vidas-inacabadas-una-exposicion-para-hacer-visible-a-las-personas-sin-h ogar/