Urban art, public space and disturbance

Abstract

Graffiti, murals, and other visual creations express aesthetic themes and interests of artists, groups, and communities. But, from another perspective, its realization in city public spaces can often lead to the violation of property, acts of vandalism, the reinforcement of the absence of authority and the notion of "no man's land", where urban coexistence lacks According to social consensus, the citizen may feel affected by the disturbance generated by messages and works that reproduce violence and non-shared political ideologies, which is also in contradiction with the principles of peace, calm and tolerance that are proclaimed by the norms of urban coexistence.