A Tribute to Frontline Service Providers during the Pandemic Home » Pictorials » A Tribute to Frontline Service Providers during the Pandemic About the artwork About the author Location Audio - Guide Obra: A Tribute to Frontline Service Providers during the Pandemic Artist: Julieta XLF Location: Coladors street Date: 2022 The image in the form of a vertical composition is loaded with symbolism, developing from the bottom to the top (allegorically like a plant that grows from the roots to the fruit at the highest point). Thus, the base and the roots are the frontline services, the different sectors that helped us and supported us during this difficult situation are represented: a doctor as a representative of the medical and sanitary services; a musician as a representative of culture and a firefighter as a representative of the rest of the care and protection services. We emphasise that the doctor and the firefighter embrace a home and a building, given the circumstances and the state of health of society. Next, on the trunk, we find the embrace that nature gave us hand in hand with its own recovery – occupying the deserted streets with leaves and flowers that sprouted without human influence and interference (due to confinement). Meanwhile, there is also space and time for some white flowers in the form of palmettos, which symbolise a wake for those who have passed away. Moving upwards towards the canopy, there are hands that harmoniously and chromatically form what remains – the embrace and global welcome of society, because together we all did as much as possible in the spirit of exquisite responsibility, to protect ourselves and others. Finally, the last part contains a girl embracing time and patience, a symbol of the individual, those who had to be patient, strong and resilient. This attitude derives the point from which the branches sprout. Forming a new and more conscious and kinder society, a chance also to be and to be better. The girl looks at the sky as a symbol of hope and at a bird as a sign of freedom. It is an intervention from below, of growth, of resurgence, and it evokes a projection that x-rays society and the human essence: we have the capacity to take care of ourselves and progress from despondency to hope. Artist: Julieta XLF Julia Silla was born in Valencia in 1982. She has a degree in Fine Arts and a Master’s degree in illustration from the Faculty of San Carlos, Polytechnic University of Valencia. Nowadays she continues experimenting and training in different disciplines, which she combines with her work activity, mural painting. In the graffiti world, she is known as Julieta XLF and that is what she likes to be called. She was awarded a scholarship by the Academy of Fine Arts Palermo, Italy (2004) and an Erasmus grant at the PONTIFICIAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY of CHILE (2006). That same year she was awarded the Acquisition Prize for her work at the XXI Paterna Town Painting Biennial, Valencia. In 2008 she won the Selected Work Award, and XXXV Bancaja Prize for Painting, Sculpture and Digital Art. Her work focuses on mural interventions in public spaces in various parts of the world, both in Europe and parts of Latin America. On the other hand, she actively participates in competitions, exhibitions and calls for urban art, street art and graffiti such as: Sagra della Street Art, M.I.A.U. Fanzara, Latidoamericano, Mislatas Representan, Safe Street Art Festival, Intracity, Xekin Festival, Habitat vs Graffiti, FIART Valencia, Incubarte, Poliniza UPV and Arte Arde Valencia, among others… She has also worked with museum institutions to display her work, including El Centre del Carme de Valencia in Creative Cartographies 100% Valencian in 2010. She has had solo exhibitions such as: “Je t’aime mon humour”, Perpignan, France. “De tripas corazón” Montana shop & gallery 2008, Valencia. “Pintures” Centre Social la Canyada (Valencia) in 2009. But what is most striking about this post-graffiti artist is that her last collective exhibitions were held outside our country, in the cathedral of graffiti in the United States: “Above the Radar” Fridge & Art Whino, Washington DC (2011) and Unearthed Show Crewest Gallery, Los Angeles (2010- 2011). Location Audio - Guide Tu navegador no soporta audio