Licea’s 2022 contribution in Carroll Village celebrates the LGBTQI+ community. The work belongs to the artist’s wider exploration of living beings, relationships, belonging and freedom, bringing a colourful moment of reflection to the town’s open-air collection.
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The story.
Licea’s Butterflies in Your Stomach brings LGBTQI+ visibility into Carroll Village. Contemporary reporting identifies the French title as Les Papillons Dans Le Ventre and describes a collaboration involving SEEK, Creative Spark and Dundalk Outcomers.
The title evokes the physical feeling of excitement or affection. Read alongside its community context, the mural makes room for intimacy, recognition and belonging in an everyday public setting. That is an editorial reading of the work; the linked report provides the published record of the collaboration and the artist’s visit.
Licea is a French illustrator, painter and muralist.
She evokes the duality of our consideration for living beings, animals, but also through them, the metaphor of our relationships between humans, of the place that we are constantly looking for, between acceptance of the domination of some and the perpetual quest for freedom.
