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Tensions and Possibilities Between the Marginality of Homeless People and Art as a Mechanism for Social Awareness
The purpose of this research was to generate processes through art that allow for the construction of new perspectives for coexistence with the homeless population. A qualitative approach was adopted, with an ethnographic design and a methodological strategy based on artistic management and creation research, aimed at responding through art to real social problems. The emerging categories were: marginalization, unbridled capitalism, and art as a mechanism for reflection and social action. Among the main findings was a profound disconnect between existing public policies and the lived realities of homeless people, who continue to be invisible and excluded from the social fabric, despite their formal recognition as subjects of rights. It also shows that the structural conditions that perpetuate misery and exclusion are sustained by systemic dynamics that naturalize inequality. In this context, art emerges as a symbolic and political act capable of generating critical awareness about the precariousness of urban life. The discussion raises the urgency of countering the generational expansion of the street crisis, which threatens to become an irreversible phenomenon. It is concluded that projects based on artistic management and creation represent not only a tool for intervention but also a means of social transformation. Finally, art is recognized as a language capable of representing silenced voices.
