Nothing is forever: an essay on the urban arts of Miguel Januário±MaisMenos±

Abstract

In this article we intend to analyze Miguel Januário’s politically engaged artistic interventions, in the last decade, characterized by the seriousness of a severe economic, financial and social crisis in Portugal. The work presented here underlies a purpose based on a primordial heuristic principle: to demonstrate that street art is a matter and object of social intervention, demarcating a specific space in the denunciation and revelation of social issues; also, multiplying and questioning, thus, the forms and contents of the urban arts.

Keywords:
urban art; Miguel Januário; street art; artivism.