This article explores the political messaging present on the walls and street furniture of the city of Athens in the context of displacement, border crossing and asylum seeking. It engages with photographs of graffiti, posters, and stencils, taken by the authors between 2017 and 2022, to demonstrate how ‘banal’ artefacts tell stories of the changing relationship between the city and seekers of sanctuary. We examine what roles graffiti might play in creating and supporting emotional proximity between groups of city dwellers, whose paths might not necessarily cross. Taking inspiration from Tazzioli’s notion of the ‘ethnography of vanishing spaces’ (Tazzioli 2020: 150) the article maps the memories and histories of transient lives in Athens and how changing political responses and narratives can be read on its walls.

本文探讨了在流离失所、越境和寻求庇护的背景下雅典市墙壁和街道设施上所传达的政治信息。它结合了作者在 2017 年至 2022 年期间拍摄的涂鸦、海报和模板照片，展示“平庸”的文物如何讲述城市与避难所寻求者之间不断变化的关系的故事。我们研究了涂鸦在创造和支持城市居民群体之间的情感接近方面可能发挥的作用，这些居民的道路不一定会交叉。本文从塔齐奥利的“消失空间的民族志”概念（Tazzioli 2020：150）中汲取灵感，描绘了雅典短暂生活的记忆和历史，以及如何从墙上解读不断变化的政治反应和叙事。