As Bourdieu (2002) argues, if there is a scenario in which symbolic violence is put into practice almost as a matter of excellence, urban space. Indeed, Maria Carman’s work is a faithful reflection of this assumption. ‘Cultural traps...’ brings us into the trapping world of life in the city, based on the experience of the occupants of houses taken from the Abasto neighbourhood of the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina), whose ‘identity narratives’ are the central objective of this production, which is away from the simplistic and homogenising eye that often prevails in various studies, naturalising a common identity of these actors.