Estació de França ceases to be merely a point of transit and becomes a space for reflection, critical observation and artistic experimentation. This is the proposal put forward by students of the Bachelor in Design, through the Projects 4 module within the Visual Creation specialisation, led by lecturer Cristina Calderón. The exhibition explores the limits, silences and contradictions of one of Barcelona’s most emblematic spaces.
Rather than proposing large-scale urban interventions, the projects stem from a seemingly simple yet deeply meaningful question: what happens to a space when it loses its central function? From this perspective, the students view Estació de França as a living territory, shaped by stories, movement, waiting and memories that often go unnoticed.
The proposal embraces a “situated practice”, a way of working that understands spaces as active agents capable of shaping how we look at and relate to our surroundings. Empty areas, underused corners and the station’s loss of centrality thus become creative material and a starting point for generating new visual narratives.
The exhibition brings together works by Helena Alayrach Mestres, Pietro Cosmo Bellocchio, Antoni Botey Ayesta, Arnau Calvet Casanovas, Leopold Daniel Noel, Irene Andrea Del Pozo Ruiz, Tanit Duch Marquina, Noa Galgo García, Elton Manuel Llorens Fernández, Nacho Lopez Ramirez, Oscar Martínez García-Villarubia, Biel Méndez Arévalo, Paul Perez Moreira, Maria Sansone Bergamo, Laia Tordera Gutierrez and Nadia Valero Martínez.
