A new street art project, Vandalina, is taking to the streets of the capital city with stickers and posters. Team raises awarness to social issues
If you are a subway commuter in Ankara, you might have encountered stickers placed haphazardly in the trains, over the glass doors, and across the stations. They are not bright in color. In fact, most of them are black and white, with occasional red splattered on.
What is striking is the messages screamed through these stickers. Below a giant, red 5 is written, “Five women are killed each day in this country” over one of the stickers. On another one with the same hair-raising statistic, “Your mother, your sister, your daughter, your lover, your friend,” is written in a blurry font.
There are over 10 variations of these stickers with the same message directing the attention of the passer-by to the increasing number of women’s murders. “Research shows that women’s murders have increased 1,400 percent in seven years,” one of the members of Vandalina, the street art collective responsible for this sticky show across the capital city, told the Hürriyet Daily News.
Vandalina, a fresh street art collective initiated by a small group of friends in Ankara, hopes to raise awareness of social issues through the use of alternative media, stickers and posters being the initial choice. The name is a play on the Turkish word for tangerine, mandalina. “We actually wanted to be connected to the idea of vandalism when selecting our name,” said the member, the “Vandalinist.”
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