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city;cultural heritage;grafitti.
The present work focuses on graffiti in the city of Fortaleza, including the 1990s. The investigation is dedicated not only to messages on the walls, but also explores graffiti thinking about the relationship between subject, city, groups and spatialities. In this way, we understand that the city was not only the support of the place where graffiti was made, but a constituent element that belonged to the city as well as other forms of expression. The graffiti produced, from places already defined and defined, another offer of space. Thus, having their own places of socialization and memory within a city in which various proposals and offers from the city were inserted, being undertaken neoliberalism policies in the 1990s. To this end, their speeches, ideas and ideas were analyzed - by informing graffiti artists at the time - about making grape and what the city meant to graffiti artists. Trying to highlight the historical ballast of graffiti, the object of the composition of this work is the perception of non-graffiti artists, residents of the city, being the periodicals source of this dialogue. The newspaper O Povo was consulted for this research, since the Caderno de Cidades proposed a dialogue with the city ramerrame and its readers. City and newspaper readers. This research approaches the graffiti as a political action and a producer of spatialities that showed a form of belonging and meaning of the city, being central how much the city is not only the background of events, but an irremediable element to the practice of its subjects, who gave meaning to the city of different forms of appropriation of spaces.