Fabrika Ouch!
Street art from Russia to Brooklyn with love
Who is Fabrika Ouch? Is it a “Brooklyn-based art project led by Russian artist from St. Petersburg Ouch,” as stated in the Fabrika Ouch website? Or is it “an art production company based in New York that finds their inspiration from what they love and dislike the most, and a political ideology similar to Occupy Wall St.,” as Versus alleges? One gallery that sells their art describes them thus: “Under the name Fabrika Ouch hide two Russian and Ukrainian artists living in New York,” whose work “mainly draws on the political and social climate and offers a creative and humoristic version of a raw reality that, according to them, we do not question as often as we should.”
Whether they are many artists or he/she is just one, Fabrika Ouch has a Russian-émigré sensibility and follows the dictates of street art—using street names, stencils and silkscreen and distorting pop and political icons. The work looks shockingly beautiful, a mix of graffiti art, Banksy and Munch. PROVOKR here offers up some recent highlights, above and below.
