Sarita Colonia

In 2019 the Museum of Cultures inaugurated his first site-specific mural thanks to the "Milano Città Mondo" project, with the aim of raising awareness - through Street Art too - of the multi-ethnic face of Milan. SEF.01 (Roberto Carlos Seminario Villar) takes Sarita Colonia, the little Peruvian heroine and “saint”, to via Tortona. The work recalls the heroine of immigration from rural areas of Peru to Lima in the 20th century. Some young people of the city also contributed to the completion.
In this work, Sarita is part of a triptych, as an African boy and an Asian girl are depicted next to her. The artist's will is to bring together, in a single work, the many faces of the new Milan, "a city where the plurality of cultures is beauty, protagonism, enrichment, a bridge that unites".