At Diagonal Mar, I developed a comprehensive project that included photographic documentation of the entire process, artistic curation, and the production of two audiovisual pieces. One of the videos focused on the artistic curation of the project El Blau Urbà, an initiative that brought together urban art, environmental awareness, and citizen participation within the shopping center.
For this project, I selected three important international artists based in Barcelona: Juanjo Surace, Twee Muizen, and Dani Buch, who created three large-scale murals inside the shopping center, all inspired by the theme of the sea and the Mediterranean. These works transformed the space into a visual environment that encourages reflection on the relationship between the city, art, and the marine ecosystem.
The project concluded with the 9th Seabed Clean-Up Day, in which the artists involved in El Blau Urbà actively participated in the beach clean-up in Barcelona. Once again, this edition was a great success: thanks to the participation of more than 300 volunteers, over 650 kg of waste were removed from the city’s beaches.
This citizen-led action is part of the #PelNostreMar campaign, an initiative that combines environmental awareness, urban art, and a genuine commitment to the Mediterranean, demonstrating how art can become a powerful tool for social impact and ecological responsibility.
South American Community is a solo exhibition presented at the Centre Cultural La Bòbila – Ajuntament de L’Hospitalet, born from a simple yet deeply political question: what would happen if South America united like Europe, under a model similar to the European Union?
For years, a central concern has guided this project: why, over time, territories tend to separate, divide, and fragment rather than move toward forms of unity and cooperation. Against this logic of division, the work proposes union as an act of resistance and a possibility for a shared future.
Arriving in Barcelona and living in Europe for several years were key experiences in the development of this series. Understanding Europe from within the city strengthened one of the artist’s fundamental convictions: “Unity is strength”. From this idea arises the question that shapes the entire work: what would happen if South America united?
From this inquiry, the project evolved as an exercise in both research and imagination. The artist began studying the economy of each South American country, including their main export products, raw materials, and natural resources, creating a utopia: a vision of economic, political, and cultural integration.
The result is a series of 12 pieces which, when combined, form a single collective image—a visual fantasy where each work represents a country while simultaneously forming part of a larger whole. In South American Community, economy, identity, and territory are intertwined, offering a critical and poetic reflection on the possibility of imagining South America as a unified entity.
