(1 Nov 2024)
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Mexico City, Mexico – 31 October 2024
1. Cyclists riding down street
2. ‘Ghost bike’ marking site where a cyclist was killed in a traffic accident in tree
3. Various of Rodrigo Olvera preparing paint
4. Various of Olvera painting and placing stencil on floor
5. Various of Olvera painting
6. Olvera revealing painting
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rodrigo Olvera, street artist:
“The reason I make these offerings is to keep alive the memory of people who lost their lives in a bicycle accident. The offerings that I’m putting are underneath the white bicycles, which are spaces of remembrance.”
8. Various of Olvera putting flowers on offering
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rodrigo Olvera, street artist:
“What I’m trying to do with this project is to highlight these kind of accidents and to activate again the memory of the places. The streets are full of memory, and it’s important to keep it alive so that it doesn’t happen again.”
10. Close of painting
11. People looking at painting
STORYLINE:
In Mexico City, ‘ghost bikes’ hang above the streets, tied to lampposts or trees.
The white painted bikes mark the place where a cyclist has been killed in a traffic accident.
As part of Mexico’s Day of the Dead celebrations, street artist Rodrigo Olvera has been painting murals underneath the bikes which he has described as "offerings" in order to pay tribute to those killed.
"The reason I make these offerings is to keep alive the memory of people who lost their lives in a bicycle accident," Olvera said.
“What I’m trying to do with this project is to highlight these kind of accidents and to activate again the memory of the places."
According to figures obtained by the Mexican news outlet N+, 1,700 cyclists have been killed in the city in the last five years.
Their figures came from the Attorney General’s Office in the capital.
Olvera’s offerings take the form of traditional ‘papel picado’ which is a common site across Mexico during Day of the Dead.
He leaves a piece with marigolds and says he hopes that his art will "highlight these kind of accidents" to make sure they don’t happen again.
AP video shot by India Grant
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