The main themes of graphicity – global inequality, social justice, protection of nature, the rights of women. The mural on the area of the Kursk station is still in the process of creating

• The first stage of creating the mural FAITH47.
  Photo: Maria Kuznetsova
• The mural will be finished in a few days.
  Photo: Vladimir Afanasiev, AI

Present name of the white native South African Cape town is not as advertised. Since I was 19 (and she is now 39) she works under the name Faith FAITH 47 or XLVII. The only way it and know the audience.

"faith" @- taught. His first mural she started doing a few years after the fall of the apartheid regime, when the euphoria subsided and worsened the social problems associated with sudden freedom. The artist is long gone from South Africa and now lives in Los-Анджелесе. But the problems of social injustice by-прежнему are the main themes of her work, inspired by its metaphors and artistic expression. In particular, one of her most famous muralov, made in USA, devoted to the problem of the homeless is terrifying the neighborhood Shine and poverty.

• The artist FAITH47
  Source: Instagram.com
• Faith47. The taming of animals. Shanghai.
  Source: unurth.com

it received a Great response bold statements of Faith 47 against buyers of illegal mining. A few years ago in Shanghai on the walls was an image of rhinos. These animals are brutally killed for the sake of precious horns, the powder of which is used in non-traditional Eastern medicine. In native Faith 47 South Africa are killed each year 300 – 500 rhinos. Smuggling of horns goes mainly to China, and even Malaysia, India, and South Korea.

Recognizable Faith47 murals based on traditional figurative imagery. They are usually technically complex to write, work on large graffiti may take a long time. Yes, some projects can only be done in the "guerrilla warfare" ("taming of animals" in Shanghai). But, for example, the mural on the wall of the Moscow "Atrium" written for the third day with the assistance of technology and with a team of assistants. And not yet finished. The audience sees the image of a woman in a scarf, but the overall design is not fully known.

Most expensive painting by Faith47 sold in the global auction market, is still the five-foot work "Never Trusk Kids" (Trusk). In 2015 at the Paris auction sold it for $6 250. Another meter thing with a complex called "An All Seeing Storm of Momentary Existence" most recently, in April 2018, bought at the French Artcurial for $5 595.

• The work of FAITH XLVII located on the back wall of Atrium from Kursk Station to the right of the falling man from WK Interact.
  Photo: Maria Kuznetsova
• Update 10.09.2018. Portrait of the Kursk completed. The woman with the covered head surrounded by the 7 phases of the moon. The inscription reads: "You woke in me a long forgotten".
  Photo: Maria Kuznetsova
  Source: instagram.com

About the other works in the Mall, you can read here.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

Sources: Instagram Faith47, Instagram project ARTRIUM

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