Ocho puntas (eight points)

It's difficult to define it as a place, since it's merely a network of routes without a clear origin or destination. People don't live there; they pass through it when forced to and when they have the strength to endure its harshness and ruggedness.

I

It is difficult to define it as a place, because it is only a set of routes without a clear origin or destination. People do not live there, they travel through it when they are forced to and have the strength to endure its hardness and roughness. Going through it has always had something of an adventure and any event that occurs there serves to feed the desire to stay there as little as possible. Every city has a corner like this in the depths of its soul. In this case it is a square whose center is guarded by an army of pigeons and crowned by an eight-pointed star.

II

Eight Points unfolds a poetic and demanding perspective on Plaça Catalunya in Barcelona. An untamed space where paths without a clear destination, like those found in all major cities, converge beneath an eight-pointed star. The uninterrupted sequence of 62 black and white photographs, the result of eight years of observation, reveals a city inhabited more through the body and memory than through a map. Pigeons, shadows, and everyday movement become symbols of an urban ritual that reveals both rawness and beauty. This work invites us to read the city as a narrative and as a profound lived experience.