WE ARE

We Are is a panoramic mural empowering the HIV-affected community and championing global solidarity.

Initiated by TANSACS (Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society), in association with TIDEL Park, Southern Railways, St+art India Foundation and Asian Paints for World AIDS Day, the artwork is a celebration of diverse identities and an attempt to dispel the stigma around AIDS and its patients. The mural depicts the portraits of ten individuals, of which three are patients of HIV, but cannot be demarcated as such. Delivering messages of awareness and hope and equality, this mural aims to reinforce the idea that there is no outward manifestation of the disease — and that whether or not we live with it, we are all in this together.