The idea is to bring art out into the street, even in the middle of a period of confinement, with strong messages. In the streets, reduced to silence, it is from now on the garbage cans, installations, digital graffiti and painting that will take the floor...
Behind the masks hides a collective of artists in Tunis. They are all graffiti artists, street artists or visual artists and have united to promote urban culture and street arts in Tunis and elsewhere. These graffiti artists met today to pass on messages during the crisis at the time of the coronavirus. These long-time graffiti artists have made a commitment to change the way people look at urban arts. To do so, they have chosen to come out of anonymity and make themselves accessible to the public. Today they put their talent at the service of all by painting frescoes everywhere, exhibitions, one way among others to change mentalities.
Through the means of social communication, the artists will propose their artistic approaches, tools and working methods through their social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Google plus, Pinterest, Flicker, Instagram, Youtube, etc.). In particular, they will aim to facilitate access to their works, to reach a new audience, to contact art market players and to establish a dialogue with novices in this field.
MYLOW – ARTIST
Amel Naffetti known as Mylow in the graffiti world, Ione in the music business. Originally from Tunis, Amel has been showing her passion for art since the age of 14. She has had several trainings in particular in styling / model making and in illustration and 2D animation.
TUNIZINHO - ARTIST
Tarek Ben Mahmoud known as Tunizinho in the world of graffiti. Trained as a graphic designer, Tarek discovered drawing at a very young age; with a particular interest in comics. His training as a graphic illustrator is also done in practice, with a lot of observation and research, and through the experience he has acquired during his professional and artistic career. He participates in several performances and workshops as well as installations.
TRANG - ARTIST
Ilyes Souihi known as TRANG designer. Bathed in hip-hop culture since his childhood. He first works on the lettering, then the character, and quickly gets noticed and he decides to devote himself entirely to his art. Through his practice he is involved in many cultural actions such as the animation of workshops, the realization of performances, or international cultural exchanges and several installations.
AKREM TOUJANI - ARTIST
Multidisciplinary professional artist elected best visual artist in 2009 in visual arts training, speciality painting. Akrem is a painter who has organized several cultural events at the Tunisian Federation of Plastic Arts of Tunis FTAP. He has thus participated in several cultural events and installations.
MALIK - ARTIST
Melek Amdrous known as Malik. With a design background, he is passionate about the world of graffiti, still considered underground and taboo, but to which he quickly became attached and remains faithful today. He participates in several frescoes downtown as well as solo performances in several events.
SHOOTER - ARTIST
Chiheb Taleb known as the prepress technician training shooter. Chiheb discovered graffiti in his early teens through independence murals. This flash had a driving effect that never left him. He immediately plunged into the hip-hop movement and turned to his most demanding discipline as an illustrator/graffiti artist.
YEFA SAIDI – MANAGER
Yefa Saidi, manager and coordinator of this project has been passionate about music and science since her childhood; two totally different shores. At the age of 8 she started taking violin lessons in a youth centre in her neighbourhood. The desire to deepen her musical knowledge led her to follow a course of study in oriental music where she got a diploma in oriental music in parallel with her studies in industrial chemical engineering and later on to classical music. She joined the Tunisian Automobile Federation as a federal member and president of women's sport in order to organize and manage events of purely female motor sport. As well as she organized in partnership with the IFT the Khalli Trace tour where there were graffiti performances and concerts in 8 cities throughout Tunisia. Thus, she is in charge of coordinating the Erkiz Hiphop project.
Culture solidaire - Interview with Yefa Saidi :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9eXeP9HCIY&ab_channel=B7L9ArtStationbyKLF
