Banksy’s graffiti in Ukraine, an allegory of triumph over ruins

The British street artist Banksy has published a video on Instagram with seven new murals painted in various cities in Ukraine and that in a few days have gone viral.

A man in a bathtub in a dilapidated building, two children using a metal tank trap as a seesaw. Or this other one in which a boy beats a man who looks like President Putin in a judo match. These are some of the images of the anonymous graffiti artist, who has confirmed that the works of art embodied in Irpin, Borodianka and Horenka are the result of his last trip to Ukraine this month.

In Borodianka, one of the cities most affected by the Russian bombing at the beginning of the invasion, Banksy integrates characters who with humor and heroism overcome the ruins of the buildings and the streets, like a gymnast balancing on a pile of rubble , or this dancer, in Irpín who emerges triumphantly from a hole or from the very abyss.

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