Photography
Personal project
Barcelona
A journey along the edges of the city.
Barcelona overflows. Its growth has produced multiple combinations of urban fabric. Interweaving transit spaces and non-places with areas of strong identity, the city projects itself globally.
The urban order established by the Cerdà Plan remains visible in the postcard image of the city. At the periphery, however, that order fragments and dissolves in everyday complexity, not only in its morphology but also in the many ways public space is used and appropriated.
Low-rise neighborhoods coexist with social housing estates, redevelopment operations such as 22@, eviction processes, occupations, and situations of abandonment or neglect. The periphery reveals itself as a territory where the city expresses its social and cultural diversity.
Shot on medium-format analogue photography (6 × 7), the project proposes a slow observation of urban tensions and of the people who inhabit the periphery.
