Winning Back Walls From Gangs, Artists Fill El Salvador's Towns with Color
The traveling Pigmen Trip festival has produced more than 200 murals as artists enter neighborhoods once controlled by gangs.
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Since the 2022 offensive against organized crime led by President Nayib Bukele, Salvadoran urban artists have been able to practice their art in a more peaceful environment.
Winning back walls from gangs, artists fill El Salvador's towns with colour
CONCEPCION DE ATACO (EL SALVADOR) - On the walls where gang members in El Salvador once marked their turf, urban artists are now creating large murals in a traveling festival that fills the streets of the Central American country with colour.
Winning back walls from gangs, artists fill El Salvador's towns with color
Cans of paint are used by a dozen painters to depict jaguars, faces, flowers, birds, and other local elements, this time in the picturesque town of Concepcion de Ataco, Ahuachapan, nestled among coffee-growing mountains about 65 km (40 miles) west of San Salvador. Before, it was "frightening" to go out into gang territories and paint murals because of the "harassment" from gangs, said Isaac Sosa, 31, founder and organizer of the Pigmen Trip fes…
On the walls where, years ago, gang members of El Salvador marked their territories, urban artists now use spray paint cans to create large murals in a itinerant festival that fills the streets of the Central American country with color. Ink cans are consumed on the mountains to draw figures of ounces, faces, flowers, birds and other local elements, this time in the picturesque village of Concepción de Ataco, in Ahuachapán, located among coffee-…
Concepción De Ataco, El Salvador. On the walls where gang members in El Salvador once marked their territories, urban artists with spray paint in hand now portray large murals in an itinerant festival that fills the streets of the Central American country with color. Paint cans are spent for lots to trace figures of jaguars, faces, flowers, birds and other local elements, this time in the picturesque village of Concepción de Ataco, Ahuachapán, n…
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