From non-places to commonplaces…and back?

Graffiti writing and street art’s paradigm shift between artification and deartification.

  • Vittorio Parisi Villa Arson Nice / Université Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris

Abstract

If, like it has been shown with Blu’s self-iconoclasm cases, a complete and successful return to the non-places paradigm is no longer possible, it seems that its original ethos could only survive in a perpetual, Sisyphean struggle against the threat of deartification: the aesthetic specificity of the non-places paradigm can only be preserved or restored through symbolic actions, or through a transfiguration into something new, a constant aesthetic research that plays within the frames and the paradigms. It is the case of MOSA’s works, BULKY and Neo-Archeologia: they both embody, in almost an ironic manner, such an ambiguous and everlasting suspension between non-places and commonplaces.

Published
2024-12-13
How to Cite
Parisi, V. (2024). From non-places to commonplaces…and back?. GSA - Graffiti and Street Art, 2(2), 32-43. https://doi.org/10.48619/gsa.v2i2.866