5.30 pm Planta Baixa
Guided tour with the artists Patricia Gómez + María Jesús González and the curator Joana Hurtado Matheu

6.30 pm Sala d’Actes P3
Round table Before the desertion, this was a neighbourhood. The cases of Cabanyal in Valencia and Poblenou in Barcelona. With Marc Andreu, Tato Herrero, Patricia Gómez + María Jesús González and Joana Hurtado Matheu (moderator).

​Among the visual documentation of the Cabanyal Archive, there is a photograph of a concrete wall bordering a plot of land on which is painted “Culture and history of a neighbourhood reduced to rubble”. The title of this talk Before the desertion, this was a neighbourhood, shares the same resonance and was taken from a piece of graffiti that could be read, last year, on a boarded-up door of the old Mesón Poble Nou.

When Patricia Gómez and María Jesús González intervene in a building, its walls have already been talking for a long time and a lot. In this round table, we will contextualise and draw out everything that the walls and the people of two neighbourhoods with similar stories have to say: Cabanyal in Valencia and Poblenou in Barcelona. These two fishing villages that were annexed to their cities both experienced a process of urban transformation as of the 1990s, with such drastic economic and social effects that today they are an example of urban speculation and neighbourhood struggle.

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