Graffiti as a art of the gesture of transgression and resistance

Abstract

In this article, we understand graffiti as an action and intention to resist and transgress. From an analytical basis based on triadic semiotics, the objective of this reflection is to work graffiti as semiosis, as a gesture of creation, as art and creative power action, as a possibility, as a confrontation to oppression. We observe graffiti as an act of communication and resistance to censorship, which strengthens democracy to understand freedom. We understand graffiti as an operator of meaning, a gesture that, straining censorship, proposes possibilities of freedom. We see the importance of graffiti, because on the wall is the gesture of episteme that seeks to politicize censorship and thus transgress, saying what can not be said by silent voices, in spaces that should not be used. By transgressing the established, graffiti configures an iconoclastic semiosis, which acts in the provocation of estrangement and dialogues; therefore, it conflicts with the dominant logic, inserting gaps in the semiosphere of consumption and oppression. The photographic images, of our authorship, are the analytical record and act as illustrations that, continuous in the text, enable the inferences made during the article. The reflections and analyses presented here are based on different researches on the subject.