Youth Art, Streetart, street and Culture: Ethnobiographicalculture: ethnobiographical circuits – Eu mermo Eduardo Africano

Abstract

This article discusses youth cultures traced through the paths of family-home-street rupture. Its objective is to understand how such paths enable experiences of reimagine the languages of self and the world, and the projection of unique artistic trajectories. It is a methodological study of an ethnobiographical nature. Through the unique trajectory of an emblematic young man named Eduardo Africano, space was created to understand the sociocultural reality of many others considered part of the Neither, Nor, Nor (NNN) generation. The article highlights the considerable number of youths who are situated in designated and stigmatized zones of danger, both geographically and morally. Africano, a black man, a resident of the periphery, with a history of involvement in closed socio-educational measures, and having spent an extensive period living on the streets, could have potentially remained himself within the NNN statistics. Following a unique path, he defies statistics and becomes: himself. In its final and concluding lines, the article points to life as the matter of art, well translating what Rancière (2005) will call the “distributions of the sensible.”