The artist JUIN has denounced on social networks the "destruction" of a mural located on the facade of Conecta Tías, in Puerto del Carmen. The painting appeared last weekend scratched with black spray paint, the artist explained.
The work, called 'Closing the Circle', belongs to an integrating project, in which women around 60 years old have participated together with some migrants, with the aim of talking about the "difficulties of migrating, leaving everything behind and launching into an unknown place, often leaving life itself along the way", JUIN specified. An action promoted by the Tías City Council, through which "we came together to talk about our experiences and portray all those experiences, whether good or bad. We are united by many more things than separate us", JUIN revealed.
JUIN has been very critical of the events, even uploading a video on his Instagram account clarifying what happened. "There are neighbors who do not accept that other people come with the same privileges with which they arrived," the artist criticized.
"We are going to continue doing actions so that these racists do not believe they can do whatever they want"
According to JUIN told La Voz, some of the neighbors in the neighborhood had already commented some time ago that "they were against the project". In this regard, the artist has made it clear that "there are people who do not understand this and live on fear and ignorance, generating hate speech that does not lead us anywhere". Therefore, now, the artist has denounced the events as a hate crime. "They should not get away with it," he stressed.
The artist has made it clear that "they have destroyed the mural", and that it is "a hate crime that will not go unpunished". In addition, the Tías City Council has also filed the corresponding complaint, a measure to which the artist responds: "We are going to continue doing actions so that these racists do not believe they can do whatever they want."
Citizens of the neighborhood and several migrants collaborated in the artistic creation, described by JUIN as some "charming" guys from Senegal, the artist specified in a video before its completion. In the publication, Malamine and Abdul appear, the two migrants happily painting the mural, smiling and sharing the improvised music of culture.
