In 2013, the anonymous street artist Banksy organized a month-long open-air art ‘exhibition’ in New York, called “Better Out Than In.”
During his residency, a mural depicting a small boy painting the words “Ghettto 4 Life” on a wall, with a butler serving him spray paint cans on a tray, appeared on one of the walls in the South Bronx. The discussions about moving the wall with the controversial street art piece from its Bronx location lasted for years, and in 2024, it finally happened.
The deinstallation process, separating the wall from the building was not a simple process, to say the least. Many people worked hard to cut the wall around the mural and dig a hole in the ground around the structure to finally extract the Banksy piece. A crane was used to load the wall onto a lowboy, which took it to Bridgeport, СT, and to install it in a designated spot upon delivery.
Main Image :Workers prepare the wall mural for transportation. Courtsey Fine Art Shippers
Anna Melnykova, "Palace of Labor (palats praci), architector I. Pretro, 1916", shot with analog Canon camera, 35 mm Fuji film in March 2022.
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