Site-specific intervention is a minority current in urban art. Most of its main practitioners come from graffiti and have practiced postgraffiti. In site-specific intervention, the artist abandons the use of a graphic identity, and produces independent and anonymous works.
Each intervention is product of a process in which the artist studies the physical and social aspects of a particular spot and, based on this observation, generates an action that adds elements to the landscape or modifies existing ones. It consists, therefore, in a dialogue between the artist and the context.
The works of SpY, Brad Downey, Akay or Adams are good examples of site-specific intervention.
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SpY, Madrid, 2009
Brad Downey, Berlin, 2007