Another Mural on the Wall: Street art & perception
Brussels has an established reputation as a city of murals and comic strips. Since 2016, it has also been home to various controversial murals. Some of these pieces were sexually-explicit and some were violent and gory.
While there have been scholarly attempts to differentiate between different types of street art, such as political street art as a sub-genre, the discussions around these murals show that such categorizations are not straightforward. Seeing is always contextual and this project tries to unearth the complexities or the hypocrisies of visual regimes.
The Story
Visual culture embodies manifestations and transgressions of symbolic boundaries. Controversial murals going against the dominant visibility regimes of urban spaces make the struggles over meaning apparent.
Different elements contribute to this story. Sometimes they take the form of a theory, other times a sound or user-generated content. Each element is a significant part of the struggle over publicly permissible visuality.
They are waiting to be discovered.
