BELO HORIZONTE (MG-BR) AND LILLE (NPC-FR): COMPARISON OF GRAFFITI IN THE STATION AND LA NOUVELLE AVENTURE SQUARES

Abstract

Brazil and France are countries that have varied convergences and divergences, highlighting the influences of Arts/Street/Urban Cultures, mainly graffiti. This, in addition to altering the urban landscape, creates places, territories and territorialities, giving voice (and spelling) to the excluded, sharing conflicts. Among these contexts, the municipalities of Belo Horizonte (MG) and of Lille (NPC) are important contributors in these Arts. The comparison of them, especially their squares and by the cultures of experiencing places, is interesting due to the fact that they are places with great cultural, economic, human and urban diversity. In this way, we propose to analyze the graffiti found in Praça da Estação in Belo Horizonte and Place de la Nouvelle Aventure in Lille, and its surroundings, looking for evidence of similarities and differences. Based on Cultural Geography, Urban Geography and Urban Socioanthropology, primary data was collected with online fields, comparison and analysis. The findings pointed to similarities and differences on a cultural and social level, demonstrating that despite being close in some aspects, their local contexts and cultures give other tones and touches to the manifestations present there. There is the most prominent approach in territorial markings and with spray; but there is a difference on political markings, Brazilian and US styles, with stencils and rolls. It should be noted, therefore, that graffiti can be considered as a removal of limits (metropolitan, regional, national and international), ignoring their territorial delimitations and the spatial jurisdictions of the authorities, but prioritizing the dynamics and rules of the streets.