SubjectCulture and leisure
“I make films to to show realities differently”
Alba Sotorra
Alba Sotorra Clua (Reus, 1980) makes documentary films out of a desire to become acquainted with realities and provide a different perspective to the one conveyed by...
“The pandemic has shown us that we humans share air and saliva, that we are all connected”
Daniel Gamper
Daniel Gamper was all set to be a scientist, but reading Jean Jacques Rousseau made him pick philosophy. He had always lived in Sant Cugat until ten years ago when he...
Angela Davis. A history of civil disobedience
Angela Davis embodies the revolutionary fascination and the nostalgia for remote struggles. She has an innate ability to translate complex thoughts into slogans for...
Joan Perucho, the pop editor
Perucho the pop editor is who is described in Joan Perucho i les edicions pop. L’aventura de Tàber [Joan Perucho and Pop Editions. Tàber’s Adventure]. This...
Claudi Montañá, the article as a work of art
Claudi Montañá was the most unique voice in music criticism in the seventies. Nobody could combine popular journalism with creative literature in their texts like he...
Els Encants: The art of the autobiographical found object
Encants i miralls de Barcelona is a dream come true for its authors, the photographer Rafael Vargas and the writer Victoria Bermejo. Rarely, and without...
Hits and misses. The state of photography in Barcelona
Barcelona’s cultural scene cannot be understood without photography. The link stretches way back and has reached the 21st century with renewed vigour. The...
Capturing reality
The collective memory of this city is permeated with thousands of images that reveal the fascination that photography has historically held. But has the love been...
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