MONTEVIDEO, ¿qué es eso en los muros?

Abstract

This research was developed at the PPG in Art and Visual Culture of the Faculty of Visual Arts of the Federal University of Goiás and aimed to study urban interventions in Uruguay. Properly, visual productions on walls (graffiti), focusing on Montevideo, Uruguayan capital. These urban interventions, according to Tavares (2008), are actions that are interesting to promote reflections in the tense and intense flows of society / city, problematizing the process of communication of ideals by the subversion of the means. Among so many themes expressed in these visuals, the research has traced the path of the painted ones on the reformulation of the drug law, strongly elevated in the regulation of the processes involved in the use of cannabis, where social movements of different shades struggle in this front from a social right. The research was developed through the study of historical aspects of visual productions in walls and the cannabis theme, with ethnographic immersion in the cultural and political context of the country. It turns out that the research was able to discuss the maturity of the processes of tensions in and on the public arena that Corrigan (2011) evokes, discussing the reconstruction of identity from the processes of plurality through which images move.