The art of graffiti in the city: dialectics of expression and deformation

Abstract EN

This research paper deals with the topic of the language of the wall "graffiti" in the Algerian city (the city of Constantine as a model), through the dialectic of expression and deformation.

there are those who consider it a cultural expression through which the issues and problems of society related to urban space are translated, and there are those who classify it as a marginal subculture that harms the viewer by distorting the aesthetic view of the city and increasing the rate of visual pollution in it.

and thanks to an exploratory study in certain districts of the city of Constantine, we were able to arrive at numerous observations and results that made it possible to explain the phenomenon of graffiti in terms of its causes, its manifestations and its diffusion in the urban environment.