Banksy
Banksy, "Welcome", Hand-stitched doormat using the fabric from life vests, 2019.
"Welcome Mat". Numbered #2755 on a label "Gross Domestic Product Banksy in collaboration with Love Welcomes", fastened to the backside. 41 x 60 cm. Still in it's original cardboard box.
The box has been opened but the doormat has not been unpacked or used.
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From the "Gross Domestic Product" installation in Croydon, London, 2019. Banksy teamed up with Love Welcomes, which supports refugees, to commission women in refugee camps to hand sew welcome mats using life vests found on Mediterranean beaches.
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Banksy is a pseudonym for an English anonymous street-art artist. He is considered one of the world's most popular and wellknown artists. His art usually comments on current events, politics and morality. One of his most popular motifs, "Girl with Balloon", a version on canvas sold at auction in 2018 for over £1 million, moments after selling it started to automatically self-destruct through a hidden shredding mechanism that had been placed in the frame by the artist years before. Making headlines the world over, appropriately renamed "Love is in the Bin" by Banksy afterwards, sold again in 2021 for £18.5 million.
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