Imaginarios sociales que se construyen alrededor del Street art y muralismo como instrumento de comunicación

Fontalvo Ortiz, Angie Julieth | 2022

The purpose of this research is to expose the social imaginaries that validate the phenomena of Street Art and Muralism, as a communication tool in the city of Barranquilla, considering the perspective of local artists, art academics and inhabitants of Barrio Abajo, a sector that was selected for the multiple interventions it has presented in recent years. It was developed under a qualitative methodology, where the bibliographic review was considered to explore the state of these movements from the international, national and local perspective; later, semi-structured interviews were applied to the studied publics, in both, physical and virtual spaces. The analysis of the results allowed to know the intention of the artists by representing their experiences and imaginaries through the works and the validation of these expressions as a communication tool, by the inhabitants and art teachers. Likewise, the discrepancies that can be generated among the community are exposed, which seek a greater representativeness in the paintings, giving way to the discussion on the instrumentalization of art by district entities and the artistic limitations that the interviewees express when applying to calls.