Trilogy of War, Hunger, and Illness

In Hudaydah, a mere wall is separating those who live above the sky from those living on the sides of the streets. The coming of war has only exacerbated this catastrophe to make thier bodies nothing but skin and bones. The starvation and epidemics emerged here only to spread wide and flourish across the country, under the auspices of a horrific silence from the inside and the outside alike.

There’s a solid wall of silence built around this area that cannot be penetrated unless with some seasonal interest; people here are completely
forgotten.
My mural “Trilogy of War, Hunger, and Illness”, painted in Hudaydah city, November 25, 2017. It’s also the first mural in my new art collection “Faces of War”.

Photo by: Najeeb Subay

Tihama

When I arrived at Hudaydah, I passed by this exact place shown in the image. There were two women cooking on a pile of stones and wood. They were surrounded by their children and behind them a cottage-like structure raised with wooden pillars and above it were worn-out clothes. I still remember their smile despite their harsh lives. I returned the next day to the same place to put this mural on the wall of their “kitchen” on the pavement, and named the mural “Tihama”.
I installed the mural in Hudaydah, November 25, 2017. It’s part of the new art collection Faces of War (FOW).

Photo by: Najeeb Subay

Abyss

This is country without a door .. just like this stadium which its door has been ripped off, turning it into a garbage dump. The children are holding on to the door opening in the hope that there’s still a door that can secure and protect. But there aren’t half doors; either it’s a complete door or else it’s a huge opening through which everything can pass.

My second mural “Abyss”, painted in Hudaydah city, November 25, 2017. The mural is part of the new art collection “Faces of War”

“Children of Rubble”

Amidst the chaos of war, one thing is as clear as the sun: all sides of war don’t care about the lives of innocents, especially children. War and its allies are swallowing the spirits and dreams of people .. and war continues to be felt only by the innocents.
My mural on the rubble of a house at 16th Street, Sana’a, as part of “Faces of War (FOW)” collection, May 14, 2018.

“Fuck War”

The ultimate enemy of the war is holding on to life and resisting the hatred that it has generated.

I painted this mural in the 60th street, as part of my street art collection “Faces of War (#FOW)”, May 14, 2018.

* I apologize for the crude title of the mural, It just so happens that it explains best Yemenis outlook on life during the war.

“Devoured”

On the wall of the “Imperial Museum of War”, England, May 2019.

“Lost Generation”

An entire generation has been lost from the beginning of the invasion of the cities in 2014 until the ongoing war that started in 2015. The dreams of the young people and the Yemenis (it is the same for the people in the region), who someday dreamt to live like the rest of the world in freedom and justice.

“The Lost Generation”, part “The Faces of War” street art collection, on a wall in London, July 5, 2019

A special thanks to the wonderful “Robbie Macinnes” who helped me with finding a place to do my murals and to my friend “Sumaya Baksh”.

“Hollowed Mother”

I no longer have anything to say about what happens in Yemen and the region, wars, destruction and death.

My recent mural “Hollowed Mother”, in “London, UK”, July 5th, 2019.

“Revolution is a MUST”

I supposed to paint this mural in Sudan. I had worked on it during the Sudanese revolution. I was not lucky enough to do it in Sudan.

Freedom for Sudan and for all the people in the world who seek freedom from oppression, injustice and ignorance.

My mural as part of “Faces of War” campaign, Belleville, Paris, France. August 13, 2019.

“Happy War Days”

La Couronne Village, France. 14 December 2020.

“Drought”

For two weeks, I worked on a series of murals as part of a project I launched in the southern French city of “Martigues”, in title “War Garden”. It is a diverse series of murals and works of wartime and revolution.

Here is the fourth mural entitled “Drought” which shows war from a different perspective, which is the scarcity and lack of water in Yemen, which results in the death of thousands of innocent people annually in Yemen. Reports vary according to which the conflict over water results in 4000 victims annually.

Yemen is in the midst of a wind, and this is what we must all realize.

“Subjugation”

Seven years of War, death and oppression in Yemen,

where everything is being destroyed and divided.

My mural in the heart of Paris, exactly next to Seine River shore, between the musem of Louvre and the Musem d’Orsay, Paris 25 July 2021.

A special Thanks to the amazing friend Jeannette Bougrab , Samuel Valkeapaa and the child May for their wonderful support.

Note: This mural inspired by the “Scream” the famous work of the Norwegian great painter Edvard Munch.

“Faces of War” Montpellier

On July 10, in Montpellier, south of France, I pasted a murals of eight “faces of war” on a wall 28 meters wide and 2.5 meters high. Accompanying the portraits, my phrase “In times of war, even the smallest voices, calling for peace, can save lives.”

“WELCOME“

I dedicate my mural “Welcome” to all the migrants and refugees who left their countries to escape the scourge of war, and who, on their way to find a safe place, died, in seas, oceans, deserts and borders.

I made this work at the request of an Italian organization which they asked me to design a work about migrants and refugees, which was supposed to realize this fresco on the occasion of the G20 summit in Italy, but unfortunately the fresco was censored by the municipality and prevented from being realized.

At the same time, I received an invitation to the “Street Art Fest Grenoble Alpes” in the city of Grenoble in eastern France, where I made the mural on a wall of about 7 meters high and 6 meters wide.

“Yasser”

Since the outbreak of the war, the parties to the war, especially in the north, have sought to use all means of dirty war, including the recruitment of children, which was and is more severe, especially after the systematic destruction of the educational system, which in turn left millions of children without education, as well as the militias of various types and agendas by recruiting and brainwashing thousands of children, taking advantage of the poverty that people have reached in Yemen.

“Yasser” is the name of my 14-year-old cousin, who was recruited by the Houthis militia backed by Iran and killed in one of the raging war zones in an airstrike by the coalition forces led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE in 2016.
This mural will be implemented on 11 August 2021, in the city of Aden, southern Yemen.
Dedication to the souls of thousand of children who were recruited and perished in this war that has been going on for seven years.

Special thanks to the Yemeni street artist Zuhair Dirham, who implemented this mural Aden city, South of Yemen, August 14, 2021

“Faces of War” Berlin.

“War is one of the evil roots, turning people into monsters and victims, and others watching and ignoring.”
This is my phrase on the mural “Faces of War” which I finished in Berlin on September 20, 2021.

I had the pleasure of collaborating with the “Human Rights Film Festival Berlin” by implementing my “Faces of War” at the main entrance of the festival, with dimensitons of 23.5 meters and a height of 3.3 meters. September 2021

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