Rome, Street Art for Rights 2022 focuses on women with three female artists. On their walls human rights and the 2030 Agenda.

Rome’s Street Art for Rights 2022 festival puts human rights at the center and focuses on women. In fact, three internationally renowned female artists are called upon to create their works: at the center of their walls are human rights and theUN Agenda 2030.

They are Barbara Oizmud representing Goal No. 14 “Life Underwater,” Natalia Rak Goal No. 15 “Life on Earth,” and Manuela Merlo in art Human Goal No. 16 “Peace, Justice and Solidarity Institutions.”

For Street Art For Rights, Manuela Merlo in art Human wants to pay tribute to women, their strength and relationships. Made in the Settecamini neighborhood, her work depicts a woman holding a dove (a symbol of peace), with other doves around her depicted in paper origami shapes that stand to emphasize how fragile peace is and how important it is to protect it. The woman is also a symbol of justice, represented by the dangling earrings in the shape of scales. The artist also wants to pay homage to Tamara de Lempicka: the wall of Human is inspired by the latter’s famous work Woman with a Dove, that is a symbol of purity, tenderness and faith, but also of pure and free love.

Natalia Rak, on the other hand, has created in the Settecamini neighborhood a wall completely dedicated to nature. A child, or perhaps a creature of the woods while sitting on a log, as in the fairy tale tradition, plays the flute, and through its melody gives life to a dance of plants, flowers and butterflies. The creature sits on a cut log, a symbol of deforestation and desertification, and plays while instilling positivity and hope: it is not too late to stop and start new life.

Finally, artist Barbara Oizmud has created a capillary reflection on life underwater and the increasing spread of microplastics in the seas. The work on the Ponte Mammolo subway wall is titled Pollen, and is dedicated to aquatic flora and fauna. The artist reasoned about Goal 14 of the UN 2030 Agenda, which aims to “conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.” The result of Oizmud’s work is a hybrid creature that ended up in the deep, both cause and cure of a collective human-generated wound. Pollen is person and animal, it is object and coral. Pollen is a mirror of our society.

In this cycle of references and tributes to women, Street Art For Rights has also chosen a woman to photographically immortalize the works, Elenoire.

The project, conceived and directed by Giuseppe Casa and curated by Oriana Rizzuto, is organized by the cultural association Taste & Travel in collaboration with MArteSocial and MArteGallery and includes a three-year program of activities aimed at the future creation of an open-air museum, public and free, outside the Capital’s most beaten paths.

The project, promoted by the Department of Culture of Roma Capitale, is a winner of the Public Notice Contemporaneamente Roma 2020-2021-2022 curated by the Department of Cultural Activities and is implemented in collaboration with SIAE.

Photo by Elenoire.

Rome, Street Art for Rights 2022 focuses on women with three female artists. On their walls human rights and the 2030 Agenda.

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