In Argentina, street art, while often at the forefront of recent political change, only became a means to express political opinions rather late when compared to other countries—indeed, until the 1990s, governments made sure that the street was not a space for citizens to freely express themselves. This situation changed after the 2001 financial crisis, when the Argentineans reappropriated the streets; political street art and murals, often commissioned by political parties themselves, then became a staple of Argentinean streets.

In this paper, I explore the use of street art in Argentina as a means to spur political change. I briefly trace the evolution of street art—the 1968 Tucumán Arde, the 1983 siluetazo, and the stencil movement that followed the 2001 financial crisis, amongst others—to then concentrate on more recent examples of street art tied to the Kirchner era (2003-2015) and to Macri. Whereas street art produced by the youth organization La Cámpora is part of a bigger project to create a visual legacy for late president Kirchner, tags and murals that depict Macri serve to criticize him and his politics.