TOURING LIFE WITH HYURO
Argentinean born street artist Tamara Djurovic, better known as Hyuro, gained popularity for her stunning street art that claims large spaces and demands attention for its intensity and concept. Having painted murals across walls through Western Europe and now in Spain, Hyuro paints surrealist murals, which play with architecture in the surroundings and incorporate politics and social causes.
As a young girl, Hyuoro always loved seeing murals painted in Argentina. Her city, Buenos Aires, has a long cultural tradition of having murals in public spaces. Having been enamored by the large artwork, Hyuro was soon to become a prolific street artist in Europe.
Her mysterious looking murals have made her popular in exhibits in France, Italy and Austria and art festivals in Norway and Spain. Her suggestive paintings focus on the human body as the central subject. Usually, she paints women standing alone or in a group, clothed in attire, which is reminiscent of a time where women were severely limited socially, politically and personally. Her critique on gender is painted softly and highlights delicacy in the human form.
The sense of vulnerability explored through her murals is overpowering and most of her paintings are inspired by the complexities of genderized life around her and her personal experiences. Most of her paintings are also headless, creating a sense of affinity with the viewer, and many of her works also paint animals, highlighting humans’ relationship with the animal kingdom.
Hyuro’s poetic visuals are more complex than gender and human relationships. Her nightmarish paintings depict dreamlike and twisted situations, mostly consisting of women, and as large murals, are extremely uncomfortable depictions of reality. Her reason for turning to street art and large murals was to send an “oversized” message to people regarding reality and all that’s happening around.
Having begun street art at a very crucial point in her life, Hyuro met a street painter named Escif who introduced her to mediums larger than canvases – the street walls. As a young mother, Hyuro pushed herself into art to make a living for her kids and looks like she got much more than that. She’s also been the only woman at various art festivals, and is aiming to rewrite the genderized idea of street art, where it isn’t defined by any.
Hyuro aims to create images that make viewers question the system we live in. Having a bit of a rebellious mind set, Hyuro’s bold take on politics, art and her role as a female artist are an admirable feat. The prolific artist also uses her art to explore personal complexities like the relationship we have with ourselves.
Hyuoro’s take on the human experience is an intricate and beautiful one. Her muted way of expressing pertinent issues that exist also gives her a cathartic outlet to explore her ownself as an artist and as a woman.
