Repainted with black marker the vandalized work dedicated to Paola Egonu: a passerby's gesture

A passerby restored to its original colors the work that street artist Laika dedicated in recent days to volleyball player Paola Egonu, an Olympic gold medalist. In fact, Laika created in front of the Coni headquarters in Rome the work Italianità, which depicts the volleyball player from Padua as she performs a powerful dunk; on the ball the inscription “Stop Racism.” But the work had lasted only one day intact because during the night unknown persons had covered Paola Egonu’s body parts (who as the daughter of Nigerian parents is dark-skinned) with a pink can of paint to change the color of the volleyball player’s skin. In addition, the writing on the ball had also been erased with a white spray can.

Now a young bystander repainted with a black marker the parts of Egonu’s body that had been colored pink and rewrote “Stop Racism” on the ball as it was originally. She also added a message for the street artist, who on her own social media launched a poll to paint the entire wall in front of the Coni headquarters. “Thank you Laika,” the young passerby wrote on the wall: a gesture also much appreciated by the street artist herself, who shared the image of the girl intent on coloring her poster, commenting, “So you move me.”

Repainted with black marker the vandalized work dedicated to Paola Egonu: a passerby's gesture

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