The city artistic support

an observation of Xadalu's works in the Historic Downtown of Porto Alegre

Abstract

This article aims to understand how the artist Xadalu uses the street as an artistic support when taking his works, which represent native peoples, to the Historic Downtown of Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul/BR. The artist's pieces are fixed in various urban elements. The sticker and the street poster are mainly used. Initially, a brief summary of the trajectory of Dione Martins da Luz, birth name of Xadalu, is presented. This stage of the research has as fundamental consultations the book “XADALU: Movimento Urbano” (ZIMOVSKI; JONER; MARTINS, 2017) and the article by André Venzon (2018). Then, we seek to understand how the City presents itself and suggests possibilities as an artistic support. To this end, authors such as Rolnik (1995), Ferrara (2018), Jeudy (2005) and Barja (2011) are studied. The methodology adopted considers that this article can be defined as an art-based research (PBA), which makes it easily suitable for cartography (DIEDERICHSEN, 2019). It begins with reflections on the sentimental cartography of Suely Rolnik (2011), in view of the affective relationship with the research, and the cartographic method of Walter Benjamin (1984) is chosen, based on Rita Veloso (2018), which approaches the benjaminian constellations of thought about the City and the urban. Finally, the photographic records of two different days in Porto Alegre’s downtown are presented. From these images, it is possible to analyze the street as an artistic support for the works of Xadalu, which produces the reterritorialization of the brazilian native peoples in the urban space based on the demarcation of territories through urban art.