Art Cast

S2 Ep11: Hera


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The guest for this episode is street artist Hera. Born in Germany, Jasmin Siddiqui is known in the street art world as Hera, and is one part of the collaborative pair, Herakut. 
 
Hera creates mixed media work on huge murals entwined with poetic text that is poignant and distinct in terms of the graffiti writing style. She looks into themes such as political injustice and social awareness. The work is hugely ambitious. One collaborative piece in Berlin measures in at a huge 42 by 16 Metres. The aim of this piece was to remind Berliners about the closeness to nature the city possess by portraying a woman in a hoodie standing holding animals in her palm, symbolically enjoying the beauty and diversity of nature.
 
The work symbolises an escape from homeland to a foreign nation, the path from the familiar to the unknown, with the mantra being ‘home is where you take it’.

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