ART IS TRA$H

By appropriating in a carnivalesque way the city’s visible surfaces, street art functions as a fearless act of social and political resistance against commodified uses of urban spaces. 

– Andrea Lorenzo Baldini, “What is Street Art?”

Imagine a practice whose artworks are largely disconnected from the artworld because their significance hinges on their being outside of that world.

– Nicholas Alden Riggle, “Street Art: The Transfiguration of the Commonplaces”

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Francisco de Pájaro is a Spanish artist, born in Zafra in 1970.  He adopts a stylized alter-ego named Art is Trash when he wanders the street with feathers in his hair and a backpack full of paint. This character is “a devil ready to spit on everyone,” in the artist’s words, with critical messages expressed on the gentrified streets of late capitalism. 

– The Editors

Photography courtesy of the artist.