KÜF Project brings subversive street art to Ankara

A urinal over the ugly tiles of one of Ankara's underpasses, 'No Parking' signs turned into peace signs, sidewalk barriers transformed into Pac-Man's 'pac-dots' - all are the work of Ankara's street art collective, the KÜF Project. The Hürriyet Daily News talks to members of the movement that makes Turkey's capital city a little more colorful each day

There were more smiles than usual in Ankara when the round sidewalk barriers on Cinnah Street, one of the capital’s main roads, turned into yellow “pac-dots” from the Pac-Man video game. Cut outs of Pac-Man and his nemesis Blinky face off over a line of dots that Pac-Man surely would like to gobble right up.

The guerilla installation was the work of Ankara’s collective street art movement, the KÜF Project, which has also turned “No Parking” signs into peace signs and “No Entry” street signs into the jerseys of the Turkish national football team, replicating the 4-4-2 formation of the team in the match against Bosnia in 2009, which led Turkey to be disqualified from the World Cup.

The idea, the group says in its manifesto, is “not to pollute the streets,” but “to color them with dormant energy.”

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