Andrè Trenier
Freedom of Speech, 2020
Bronx, New York
Photo Credit: Andrè Trenier
Inspired by American artist Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms series, this mural is one of Trenier’s own series of four murals painted in the Bronx and serves as a throughline of Americans exercising their freedom of speech and right to protest. While also informed by the nationwide protests in the United States sparked by the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, the painting further responds to community tensions at a local level in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City.
“A young Black Dominican girl holds her fist up—the symbol of the Black Power movement—while holding a sign with a quote from the song “Me Gritaron Negra,” (“They Yelled At Me: Black!”) by Victoria Santa Cruz (an Afro-Peruvian dance and theater activist).”
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安德烈·特雷尼尔 (Andrè Trenier)
《言论自由》(Freedom of Speech)，2020 年纽约市，布朗克斯县
照片来源：安德烈·特雷尼尔 (Andrè Trenier)
这幅壁画的灵感来自美国艺术家诺曼·洛克威尔 (Norman Rockwell) 创作的《四种自由》(Four Freedoms) 系列，是特雷尼尔自己在布朗克斯县绘制的四幅壁画系列之一，以美国人行使言论自由和抗议权利为共通的主题。乔治·弗洛伊德 (George Floyd) 和布罗娜·泰勒 (Breonna Taylor) 之死在全美引发了激烈的抗议活动，这幅画也从中汲取了灵感，同时进一步回应了纽约市华盛顿高地社区的紧张局势。
“一位多米尼加黑人女孩举起握紧的拳头，象征着黑人权利运动，而手中的示威牌子上写着非裔秘鲁舞蹈家、戏剧活动家维多利亚·圣克鲁斯 (Victoria Santa Cruz) 的歌曲《Me Gritaron Negra》（他们对我大喊黑人）中的一句词。”