Urban temporalities

graffiti and interventions as narratives of the city

Abstract

This article analyzes graffiti in the city of Brasília as a way of constructing urban narratives that express multiple temporalities. From a Cultural History perspective, it investigates how urban interventions produce meanings about the city, challenging official discourses and revealing everyday experiences. Based on authors such as François Dosse, Sandra Pesavento, and Armando Silva, the city is understood as a palimpsest of memories and narrative disputes. The analysis highlights the simultaneously ephemeral and memorial character of graffiti, as well as the conflicts between erasure, preservation, and rewriting of urban history.