STREET ART, POETICS OF MOURNING AND POLITICAL MEMORY IN A SEMIOTIC LANDSCAPE IN SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL

This study reflects on producing an artistic-activist intervention on a public staircase in São Paulo, Brazil, dedicated to honoring Marielle Franco.The action on the public space is meant to assemble an urban semiotic landscape linking social movements advocating for the crime to be solved and denouncing the policies of death directed against peripheral populations. Methodologically, the research undertook an empirical approach, encompassing site visits to the staircase and the compilation of an archival corpus. Theoretically, the text builds a framework of discussions, exploring the concepts of landscape (Jaworski; Thurlow, 2010; Zukin, 1991), monument (García Canclini, 1995), montage (Pignatari,1981) and heterotopia (Foucault, 1986). The ensuing analysis delves into the following aspects: a) monument as heterotopia and its indexicality of place; b) the pragmatic and visual-spatial montage; c) inscriptions and the confluence of times; d) signs of mourning and political struggle on the monument and in the performance of activists.