Subversão na paisagem: do canto do graffiti ao grito da pixação

Abstract

In the contemporary city, the graffiti is increasingly present as it is exposed in public and private spaces, building symbolic urban landscapes. These urban graphics are rich in colors, shapes and discourse. They represent the speak of a group of people who are often socially marginalized, and who use these forms of expression to exercise their political action, becoming protagonists in the city’s symbolic production. This work seeks to understand the graffiti’s spatiality on the walls of the city of Natal-RN, analyzing their forms and contents. The purpose here is to understand which are the logics behind the appropriation of those spaces, as well as the motivations behind the actions of who are graffiting those spaces. In some instance, this work considers that the landscape is ‘subverted’ by the hands of these graffitiers whose work is to keep leaving marks in the city.