As dimensões do graffiti feito por mulheres como fenômeno de comunicação na cidade: um olhar a partir da prática das mulheres grafiteiras em Juiz de Fora

Abstract

This thesis addresses the communication of graffiti made by women in the city of Juiz de Fora (MG). It is the result of an investigation that seeks to understand the relationship between graffiti as a message, the woman as the subject who produces it and the city being the main space for this creation. The research started from the following question: what are the dimensions of graffiti made by women as a communicative phenomenon in the city? The hypothesis is that the dimensions are related to the communication phenomena linked to graffiti itself, to women themselves, and to the city itself, as well as to the communication phenomena arising from their interrelations (graffiti, women, and the city). The study aimed to highlight the dimensions of graffiti created by women, understanding it as a communication phenomenon. The methodological procedure had the steps: literature review of the concepts graffiti, woman, city and the relationship with communication; definition of the research problem and hypothesis; search for graffiti artists in the city by urban route, by Instagram and by snowball. From what was found there was the selection of five graffiti artists whose names are: Pekena Lumen, Big Didi, Tia, Mabayô and KTN, with whom individual in-depth interviews were conducted. The analyses of the interviews were carried out based on three interrelated categories: graffiti, women, and the city. In the end, it is concluded that the communicative logic of graffiti made by women in the city permeates at least six dimensions that take part of the communicative production of graffiti, which may or may not correlate, the aesthetic dimension; subversive and transgressive dimension; feminist, activist or empowerment dimension; subjective and community dimension; temporal space dimension and dimension of the law. Graffiti can be understood as a communication phenomenon in the city, especially in the context of popular, alternative and community communication.