Thin line between art and respect

Art or eyesore?: Using a projector, Ovseikin stencilled ‘Body Here – Heart There’ in Russian on the wall of a house in Bali. — Photo taken from Ovseikin’s Instagram page

IN mid-January, under the cover of darkness, Russian street artist Sergei Ovseikin slipped into a rice paddy in Canggu, Bali, to paint one of his most controversial installations yet.

Using a projector, he stencilled “Body Here – Heart There” in Russian, with black Cyrillic lettering measuring 40cm high, on a concrete wall of a neighbouring house.