Let’s take a walk in democrathie
By Dav
This street art is named “Let’s take a walk in democrathie” by Dav. It was made in 2018 for the festival, in Grenoble.
Dav is 38 and was born in Lyon. He started doing street art at 20 years old and was using stencil and plaster casting at first. He drew pills to show that the society is sick. He then started drawing with other methods. He wants to show people how some events are severe by drawing shocking revelations, like this street art, where these characters from the book “the wizard of Oz” are forced to stay on the golden road.

 

 

This represents a famous scene of the Wizard of Oz, we can see in the middle the principal characters : Dorothy, the scarecrow, the cowardly lion, and the tin woodman. They are walking in a golden road.
On the left and right we can spot policemen, they are blocking their way.
This is totally in black and white except the golden road.

We have chosen this art piece because this topic is a really important one that everyone knows about and we also wanted to show how it explains the idea of showing the political world related to the democratic political party.
On the other hand, the sentence “let’s take a walk “ which is the title is an invitation to see the political problems there are in democracy.

This art piece wants to show that politics and art are somehow related to each other and it can be a way to make people think. In addition, it also shows that art is a way of expressing ourselves and our ideas. This has led us to show freedom of expression as well as letting artist debat about their own thoughts.