Street art continues to color certain districts of the capital. While urban art projects are becoming increasingly numerous in the City of Light, some are truly worth the detour. Such is the case of this new fresco to be discovered very soon in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, on the Human Rights Wall.
Made available toAmnesty International France by the City of Paris, this human rights wall was officially inaugurated on September 21, 2023 at N°30 rue du Sahel. The aim? To raise awareness of human rights among the Parisian public " in an attractive, positive and artistic way ", explains the City of Paris in a press release published on September 13, specifying that this human rights wall " will be the subject of regular frescoes, created by different artists ". For the inauguration of the wall, the first work of urban art pays tribute to six contemporary activists.
Measuring 15 metres long and 5 metres high, this immense street art fresco honours the faces of activists who fight, " often at great cost, to defend human rights ", explains the City of Paris in the same press release.
Mahn Kloix, the Marseilles-based street artist behind this committed work, decided to pay tribute to Nasrin Sotoudeh, a lawyer who became an Iranian figure in the defense of human rights, to Doctor Mukwege, winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize and known as the man who " fixes " women, to Chelsea Manning, the US military whistleblower, to Malala Yousafzai, who embodies the fight for the right to education, to Greta Thunberg, the famous environmental activist who fights against climate change, and finally to Angela Davis, the icon of the feminist and anti-racist movements.
" The diversity of their backgrounds - women's rights, climate, access to healthcare, the fight against discrimination, fundamental rights and freedoms - offers a range of very contemporary struggles, which will be of interest to a wide audience... and inspire young people to take up the cause," says the City of Paris in a press release.
