Valencia walls & words · Pamela Vargas · Doctor Sax · 2021
For years, urban artists have been in charge of designing the great municipal monument in the Plaza del Ajuntament in Fallas. Street artists como Dulk, Escif o el duo PichiAvo They began painting Valencian walls that the Chilean Pamela Vargas photographs with her “tourist eye” looking for small dirty corners of Ciutat Vella where the old architecture coexists with the freshness of graffiti.. “If not ilegal is not graffiti?”. Maybe. She likes shabby, the street conversation that occurs spontaneously when someone crosses out the “not” in “Tourist you are not welcome” with a “very” that completely changes the meaning of the message. “Everyone has the right to scratch the walls of the city and I try to demonstrate that with the crappy drawings, "You don't have to be a perfect artist or painter to do cool things.", She tells us, convinced that the dirt, it shabby, the spontaneous, what is not well finished, has its that. He has gathered his best photos in a very visual book called Valencia walls y words (Doctor Sax) which closes with a graffiti in which J.Warx combines the Fallas theme with the outbreak of the pandemic and photos of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. But before we get there, You will see the calm girls of Julieta XLF, Dehi's retrofuturistic androids, Luis Lonjedo's kiss, the parsimonious elegance of Escif, stencils and glued posters of The Photographer, David de Limón's ninja, Duck Fluff's ducks, @sion armchairs, the Barbiturikills rabbit, the women of La Nena Wapa, the multiplied rows of eyes of Chikitín Valencia, the realistic paintings of Xolaka, and international artists such as the American Amanda “Mando” Marie (@seeyouthroughit) with his comic girls or the Uruguayan Gastón Rosa (@Untonga) with its little pink tumbs. among many throw-ups (words), tags (firms) and small spontaneous and unelaborated interventions by anonymous people full of humor and desire to express themselves. S.M.
