Banksy leaves his mark in Borodianka, Ukraine
TETIANA PUSHNOVA – SATURDAY, 12 NOVEMBER 2022, 07:26
Banksy, a UK-based street artist, has appeared to confirm that he had visited Borodianka. He shared a picture of a mural he created in the Ukrainian city on his official Instagram page.
Banksy created a mural of a young female gymnast performing a handstand, as if balancing on a damaged building. The graffiti artist worked among broken down concrete structures and reinforcements destroyed in a Russian attack.
Banksy’s caption for the photo simply reads: "Borodyanka [sic], Ukraine," as if he knew that his fans were waiting for confirmation that he had visited this war-ravaged city.
Banksy’s possible visit to Ukraine has been debated over the past several days, after his Instagram fan-page shared a photo of a graffiti created on concrete slabs in Kyiv’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square): two children as if rocking, seesaw-like, on an anti-tank obstacle defence.
Several days later, Ed Ram, a photographer working for foreign media in Ukraine, shared a photo of a Borodianka mural depicting a man wearing a martial arts uniform and a black belt being flipped during a judo match with a little boy.
Banksy is a pseudonymous UK-based street artist who became famous for his stencilled graffiti in Bristol and London, and then the entire world. He has been working for almost 30 years, but continues to maintain anonymity.
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