New York Street Artist Aiko is cutting a new stencil in a dusty warehouse space with huge windows, but instead of being in an industrial neighborhood in Brooklyn, this time she’s in New Delhi. The new image of a woman and child and sword is not quite standard fare for the feisty streetwise Aiko, who has depicted scantily clad women in very sexualized scenes as a way of expressing power in the last few years. Perhaps bowing to local norms, the new Indian mural is much more modestly attired, yet still an image one will interpret as powerful.
Aiko cutting the stencils at the studio in Delhi. (photo © Akshat Nauriyal)
Here for the 2015 edition of St+Art India, a mural festival featuring mainly Street Artists from around the world, the artist whose work has appeared on New York walls many times is here with the help of the Japan Foundation. With excellent assistants on the ground Aiko knocked out the first of many murals in India’s capital which we’ll be posting for BSA readers.
Aiko at work on her wall with the help of assistants. (photo © Akshat Nauriyal)
Aiko at work on her wall with the help of assistants. (photo © Pranav Mehta)
Aiko at work on her wall with the help of assistants. (photo © Akshat Nauriyal)
Aiko (photo © Akshat Nauriyal)
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