The Valencia based street-artist Hyuro recently painted a mural as part of the “Més Que Murs – Sagunt” mural project in Sagunto, Spain. Titled “Education“, the mural is located in the courtyard of a primary public school, where the artist had the pleasure to talk with children and answer their questions, motivated by an inexhaustible longing to know and discover new things.
About The Mural
According to Hyuro, this wall talks about the current educational system in Spain, an education that doesn’t complement, nor encourages the curiosity, creativity and motivation that every child carries within. The Spanish educational system remains anchored in a method based on the previous industrial revolution. Schools continue to prioritize a rigid educational method, lacking in creativity, where memory continues to play a central role in a training that points to a good performance exams.
Practically children spend the most of their days in school, and their activities take place within school premises, with minimal outdoor activities.
In some way children end up learning how to integrate and submit into the relationships of power and domination. Instead of stimulating the desire to challenge and question doctrines, forcing them to look for alternatives, to use their imagination and proceed freely under their own intuition. We continue with an educational system that prefers to ensure that people are indoctrinated, conformed, and not ask many questions so that satisfactorily assume the assigned roles.
About The Artist
Hyuro is an Argentinian born artist best known for her black and white murals, paintings and drawings focused on visual expression.
Over the years she’s managed to create a name in urban art circles by blending politics and surrealist sensibility into dreamlike compositions. The characters she creates are dark, often of decapitated figures of dreary women, and animals, that suggest a message or a narrative but leave most interpretation up to the viewer.
Hyuro began her career working on producing paintings and drawings, but in recent years has focused her practice on the streets of Valencia, Spain and Throughout Europe.
