São Paulo inks: the scars of inequality

Abstract

The article presents a look at the pictorial manifestations in the urban spaces of São Paulo, Grafite and Pichação, scars of São Paulo culture, tears that mark indelibly the surfaces of buildings, walls, equipment refighting the hegemonic values in any and all routes in the city. Movements, whose residual and emerging values and meanings constitute singular experiences of peripheral groups, which in anarchic actions reverberate cries for help and, although recent, were already inserted in the studies of Raymond Williams (1921-88) from the mid-twentieth century and, here selected, give theoretical and practical support.