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During the Chilean social crisis, one of the visible traces in the city were graffiti, murals, and other graphic expressions that appeared in the public space loaded with political messages and expressions of agitation, which shed light on the deep crisis in the relationship of a large part of the citizenship with the Chilean state and the institutional order. Based on the analysis of more than 300 photographic records obtained between October 18, 2019, and February 3, 2020, this article analyzes the content of these expressions in the key of artivism, in terms of form, message, text, and subtext, in order to try to glimpse those distinctive elements of a social movement characterized as inorganic and cross-cutting, which triggered a process of constitutional change, as well as a dispute to resignify the public space in symbolic terms, generating new processes of political socialization through the production of new subjectivities, with a strong use of elements of visual culture. One of the central reflections of this work affirms that, in the Chilean case, the mobilization expressed through practices of artivism generated new imaginaries and subjectivities for the configuration of a new political scenario, generating an impact on the crisis of the state-citizenship relationship and, in this case, marking symbolic milestones in the profound crisis of the neoliberal order.