Vicious Circle BUENOS AIRES

The meaning of the original painting “Vicious Circle” by a Polish Symbolist painter Jacek Malczewski, is rooted deeply in the Polish tradition, in which a circular dance often symbolizes human life entangled in history. Battling with their own precarious political history, Poles have always been a nation of migrants, escaping persecution in their own country and searching for a new haven abroad.

In Yola’s interpretation Vicious Circle symbolizes the universal problems of contemporary migrants who, in search of hope and a better life, invariably come up against every day obstacles, loneliness, alienation and rejection.

She has transplanted the image to the streets of Buenos Aires, one of the biggest and most diverse melting pots in the world. The actors in Jola’s image are friends she met in Buenos Aires – Argentine, French, Colombian and American, with roots in places as diverse as Italy, Spain, Russia, Poland, Ukraine and Romania.

The Buenos Aires street artist Jaz opened his workshop to Jola and suggested a collaboration on a wall in a busy street of BA’s vibrant district of Palermo. He invited two street artists: Other from Canada and Corona from France to join them.

Vicious Circle can be seen in Sanchez de Bustamante y Charcas in Buenos Aires