Colomina has been posting photos of the Putin statue in different parks around the world since late June.
These children, unaware of the statue’s meaning, have even involved it in a squirt gun fight.
Children are a recurring theme in Colomina’s work.
These sculptures, in bright red, are installed in public and are impossible to ignore.
What inspires me, in general, is the news and injustices, he shared.
I experienced the invasion of Ukraine as a trauma.
The city I currently live in, Toulouse in France, is twinned with the city of Kyiv.
Art, in all its forms, can be the support of a denunciation of war and its atrocities.
It allows you to say things differently and participate in the duty of memory.
It seems essential to me to react.
