Trajetórias, grafias e arte de rua na cidade do Natal/RN - Brasil

Abstract

This work analyzes the production of images in the city of Natal/RN - Brazil through the work of local artists in their protagonism in street art, graffiti and pixo, extending the reflection also beyond national borders. The realization of this ethnography was based on methodological procedures such as walking in central regions of the city, taking photos and photographic collection, interlocution with artists, participation in events, documentary research and anthropological, urban and visual reflection. The results of the research suggest that there is a relationship of reciprocity in this process that involves street art and the city, where artists’ journeys, in addition to a graphic and plastic action, also implies a biographical action. When walking through the streets and places of the city, intervening in its physical structure, they live this experience expressing it through these forms, emphasizing the conflicts and the urban contradictions, but also its poetics. In the city of Natal, as in other cities, preserving their specificities, the exercise of art performed along the streets creates a socio-spatial knowledge. This knowledge is shared in the urban visual sphere in images offered to anyone who stops to see and think about them.