Seeing Is Inventing. Barcelona: Architecture and City. A group exhibition organized by Jordi Bernadó.

Main Space. From 25 Jun, 2026 to 24 Jul, 2026

Opening:25 Jun, 2026

Opening to public:si

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A group exhibition bringing together a selection of works chosen by Jordi Bernadó around architecture, the city, and its transformations. Through diverse photographic approaches, the exhibition reflects on the ways we perceive, represent, and inhabit the urban environment. The presence of a fragment of Montjuïc connects these perspectives to Barcelona’s material history.

The exhibition is grounded in the idea that every photograph constitutes a position taken toward the world. Beyond its documentary dimension, the image articulates a way of seeing, interpreting, and constructing reality. In this context, architecture and the city cease to be understood as mere physical settings and instead emerge as spaces onto which social transformations, modes of inhabitation, and new contemporary sensibilities are projected.

Conceived through Jordi Bernadó’s perspective, the exhibition brings together a selection of works that explore different approaches to the urban landscape and the built environment, understanding photography as a critical tool capable of revealing the multiple layers—political, symbolic, and affective—that shape the experience of the city.

The exhibition unfolds in dialogue with contemporary debates surrounding architecture, urbanism, and perception, paying particular attention to the ways in which images shape our relationship with the environment and condition our ways of seeing. Through a range of visual languages, the works shift architecture away from its strictly functional dimension toward a more sensitive and reflective reading, where space appears as a territory in constant transformation.

At the heart of this journey emerges the presence of a stone extracted from Montjuïc, incorporated into the exhibition space as an element that feels both foreign and deeply connected to Barcelona’s material history. Its presence introduces a disruption within the visual ensemble, redirecting attention from the representation of the city toward one of its most primary and constitutive elements. Rather than functioning as a sculptural object, the stone prompts a reflection on matter, origin, and the ways in which landscape, architecture, and urban memory remain inscribed within that which physically sustains the city.

Artists:

Gabriele Basilico

Jordi Bernadó

Roger Grasas

Jordi Guillumet & Mònica Roselló

Ola Kolehmainen

Manolo Laguillo

Martí Llorens8. Josep Maria Llobet

Anna Malagrida & Mathieu Pernot

Eduardo Nave

Aitor Ortiz

Carles Puig

Humberto Rivas

Txema Salvans

Laura Van Severen

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