Taking the white cube: reflections on the entrance of pixação into the art world

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https://doi.org/10.11606/1678-9857.ra.2022.197969

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Pixação, urban art, ratification, art worlds, São Paulo

Abstract

The article describes and analyzes the entrance of pixação into the art world. By reconstructing situations that contributed to this transit, we show that the stigma and criminalization of this practice in the public sphere did not prevent its gradual admission into certain artistic circuits. Although the artification process of pixação involves different events and social actors, we argue that it results largely from strategies triggered by pixadores themselves. As they occupy the city's surfaces, they occupied the art worlds to find their own place. The reflections presented are based on research on urban art carried out between the years 2017 and 2021, which resorted to analyzing documents and in-depth interviews with a set of social actors involved in this context.

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Author Biographies

  • Gabriela Pereira de Oliveira Leal, Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

    Gabriela Pereira de Oliveira Leal é doutoranda em Estudos Urbanos (NOVA FCSH & Iscte) e  pesquisadora integrada ao CICS.NOVA, onde a sua pesquisa é financiada por fundos da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., no âmbito do projecto «UIDP/04647/2020». É mestre em Antropologia Social e bacharel em Ciências Sociais (USP). Colabora com o GEAC-USP, integra a rede ETNO.URB e a comissão editorial da revista Ponto.Urbe (NAU-USP). As suas pesquisas estão situadas na intersecção entre a Antropologia Urbana, os Estudos Urbanos e os Hip Hop Studies.

  • Ricardo Marnoto Oliveira Campos, Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

    Ricardo Marnoto Oliveira Campos é investigador principal no Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (CICS.Nova) e professor convidado no Mestrado em Relações Interculturais (Universidade Aberta). Coordenou os projectos Artcitizenship – Young people and the arts of citizenship: activism, participatory culture and creative practices (2019-2022), TransUrbArts - Emergent Urban Arts is Lisbon and São Paulo (2016-2020), com financiamento da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.

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2022-11-25

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Leal, G. P. de O., & Campos, R. M. O. (2022). Taking the white cube: reflections on the entrance of pixação into the art world. Revista De Antropologia, 65(3), e197969. https://doi.org/10.11606/1678-9857.ra.2022.197969