As the situation in Yemen darkened, so did Murad Subay’s subject matter
FREQUENT VISITORS to the skatepark on London’s South Bank may have noticed two new works of art among the decades-old graffiti. Both spray-painted in black and white, one image depicts a naked and emaciated mother clutching a newborn; another shows a starving boy, his hair on end, listlessly picking at his hands. Entitled “Hollowed Mother” and “Lost Generation” , the figures are cadaverous and haunting, with dark empty holes where their eyes should be.
Mr Subay began painting when he was a teenager, though he has never been formally educated in it. He first gained attention in 2012 with “Colour The Walls of Your Street”, a campaign in which he invited friends, passers-by and strangers on social media to paint bright murals in areas of Sana’a that had been affected by conflict after the Yemeni uprising in 2011.
Another series, titled “Bon Appétit”, was inspired by Warhol’s Campbell’s soup cans, and it likens the sales of arms to that of mass-produced junk food. “Arms Corporations around the world deal with weapons as a...commodity,” Mr Subay writes on his website, “exporting them to all parts of the world with no responsibility.” Bold and chunky, the paintings depict a rocket and a hand grenade mid-detonation .
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