Memòries

The identity and life of the neighbourhood fade away. Policies focused on tourism as an economic engine have a strong impact on the local population. Spaces for children and young people disappear, housing becomes unaffordable, and streets and squares lose their character. Is this the present and future we want?

The installation questions the current economic and urban model through a hybrid audiovisual device, both physical and digital. Two cassette tapes play sound loops from genuine spaces in Barcelona that have not yet been transformed by mass tourism. As the exhibition progresses, these tapes degrade until they disappear. At the same time, a third tape with sounds from a space already transformed by tourism plays indefinitely without deteriorating, creating a clear and symbolic contrast with the previous ones. A sonic metaphor for the process of urban transformation.