Pixo is the result of doing “pixação”, a kind of graffiti/tag original from Sao Paulo, the biggest city in Brazil, that exists since the early 80’s. it has a very peculiar style and it’s an illegal form of expression, made mostly by people from the marginalized areas that got nothing to loose and very little to expect.

Their main goal is the “ibope”. To achieve the pixo’s “ibope”, one must have their name written everywhere, in the higher and most difficult public spaces. When they’re successful, it hurts a society that sees it as a dirty thing, nonsense angry and crime.

Pixo, a documentary about São Paulo’s pixação, directed by João Wainer with art direction from the artist Alexandre Orion. It’s very ironic, and even funny, that one of the most hated expressions in Brazil now is in the same place of contemporary artists, as Beatriz Milhazes, the most valuable Brazilian contemporary artist alive, and who once did the center walls.

The video is in portuguese and it is just available in french subtitules, but still worth to watch.

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