“This City is Mine Too”: graffiti as a manifestation of the psyches of excluded urban subjects

Abstract

Abstract: The article aims to demonstrate that the way the city is planned influences the formation of human subjectivity. This work thematizes, through bibliographic review methods, testimonials and photographic records, issues related to the occurrence of graffiti in urban space as a form of insurgency and protest against the hegemonic and exclusionary urbanism model, in force mainly in large cities. In this scenario, graffiti artists emerge, a group that seeks to redefine the urban landscape through aesthetic, functional and visual interventions, in their quest to belong to the place, at the same time that they denounce their exclusion from this space. The narrative was built through a hypothetical-deductive approach, with an exploratory, descriptive, explanatory and qualitative character. As a result, it is concluded that graffiti also ends up revealing the psyche and subjectivities of the subjects that produce this symbolic and material expression.   Keywords: Graffiti; Insurgency; Socio-spatial exclusion; Invisibility; Psyche.