Life is a dream, is more than just a mural. It all started When the Straat Art Museum Amsterdam (SAMA) invited Chicadania and Pez to participate in a project for the municipality and housing associations in the Banne district. The challenge for the artists was to tell a story of the neighborhood residents, mostly immigrants, and to pay homage to the street name. Which is a nod to the classic boats called Tjalks. The artists designed a mural representing the life of the kids in the neighborhood as a dream. Chicadania painted the faces of Marco from Venezuela And Veronica from Ukraine. They are dreaming in a turquoise (with the passing of time, the turquoise background became decoloured and now is yellow) Universe with boats and fishes floating created by Pez.....
Access | Public |
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Artist nationality | Colombia |
Artwork subject | Fish, Ship |
Date created | 2022-07-24T22:00:00.000Z |
Building | Residential |
Organization | STRAAT |
Marker type | artwork |
City | Amsterdam |
Country | Netherlands |
What3Words | tinsel.rooms.swatted |