A piece of street art has appeared in
Paris showing Italia journalist Cecilia Sala in handcuffs in
Iran with a gag over her mouth.
The work created with artificial intelligence by Italian street
artist Ozmo was left on a wall in the center of Paris Monday
night to draw attention to the plight of the 29-year-old Rome
born Il Foglio reporter and Chora New podcaster detained since
December 19 in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison.
"I thought of this intervention to raise awareness among the
French and international public about the human rights
violations to which Cecilia is subjected," the artist explained
to ANSA.
"My work denounces a reality of imprisonment, with the image of
a person in handcuffs, without a voice, as a symbol of the
condition of Cecilia and of many others who oppose authoritarian
regimes. Not a consolatory image, but a cry of denunciation."
The French text accompanying the poster posted in front of the
Teatro La Colline, a short distance from the Père-Lachaise
cemetery, explains that the intent "is to bring to light a
serious and often ignored condition.
"The figure of Cecilia Sala, depicted with her hands handcuffed
and a plaster over her mouth, is not intended to represent a
victim, but rather an awareness.
"This intervention is intended to be a request for urgent action
for her release and for the respect of human rights, not only in
Iran, but globally".
"Ozmo, the name with which the artist Gionata Gesi signs
himself, has long lived and worked in Paris.
In the French capital as well as in Italy and abroad he has been
the protagonist of public works of art, exhibitions in museums
and private galleries and street art incursions focused on
dialogue and inclusion and on political and ecological issues
related to current events.
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