“We need to talk about racism, intolerance and hatred, and do something about it, JUNTOS”.
JUNTOS (Portuguese/Spanish for “together”) is Portuguese artist Diogo Machado aka AddFuel‘s newest mural, painted in the municipality of Amadora in the northwest of Lisbon. 
Amadora is not just the most densely populated municipality in Portugal, it also has a large number of immigrants. Non-nationals make up 7.60% of Amadora’s total inhabitants. The largest minority group- people from six countries in Africa where Portuguese is the official language (PALOPS)- Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe-make up 76% of Amadora’s total migrant inhabitants.
JUNTOS is intended as a call to unity, respect and tolerance. As expressed by the artist, ‘in a multicultural city like Amadora, JUNTOS is a visual composition of multicultural, aesthetic and chromatic influence, which celebrates the diversity of races, cultures and skin tones that make the world more beautiful.’ A lovely piece with a deep meaning based on the concept of unity and cultural understanding. Can we have more of this in the urban art scene, please?
JUNTOS was made possible as part of the urban art promotion project ‘Conversas na Rua’. Here a few more images of the work.
Author: Fran
Founder and editor of Urbanite. Street Art lover who after the finishing her MA thesis on the Mexican and Norwegian muralist movement in the 1920-50s, developed a fascination for street art and graffiti that eventually led to collaborations with different art blogs, including the creation of this one.
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