C215, French street artist painting in Kiev to bring support and relief

French street artist Christian Guémy, aka C215, went to Ukraine to “bring a little smile and some humanity to a difficult situation.” In fact, he started making his works, for example, next to a subway station or in a market badly damaged by bombing or even on a bus shelter in Kiev.

After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, C215 had already created a huge street art piece in Paris depicting a girl whose portrait featured the colors of the Ukrainian flag, yellow and blue, but then he decided to personally go to Kiev, where buildings are destroyed by bombing. "It is a sign of support. If it can bring a little smile, I’m satisfied,“ he said. ”I didn’t really decide to come to Kiev, it was my paintings that decided for me,“ he added. ”It’s very intense to see the contrast with the bombed building behind,“ he concluded, ”if you want to make street art that talks about war, the work has to be where the war is happening and it has to show the destruction and the situation there."

Image: Ronaldo Schemidt / Afp

C215, French street artist painting in Kiev to bring support and relief

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