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

Jordi Guillumet & Mònica Roselló

Roger Grasas

Ola Kolehmainen

Manolo Laguillo

Martí Llorens

Josep Maria Llobet

Anna Malagrida & Mathieu Pernot

Eduardo Nave

Aitor Ortiz

Carles Puig

Humberto Rivas

Txema Salvans

Jon Tugores

Laura Van Severen

Massimo Vitali

 

Conversation Series

09.07.2026 · 7 pm

I. And Our Places, My Life, Brief as Photographs

With Ricardo Devesa and participating photographers

The first of two conversations organised as part of the exhibition Seeing Is Inventing. In this session, Ricardo Devesa will be joined by participating photographers to reflect on the places that inhabit memory, the stories contained within images, and photography’s ability to register spaces and their temporalities which, as John Berger wrote, are “brief as photographs.”

Ricardo Devesa is an architect and holds a PhD in Architecture. He is the author of Domesticidad a la intemperie (Actar, 2022), a professor and researcher at La Salle School of Architecture, Universitat Ramon Llull, co-founder of urbanNext.net, and served as Editor-in-Chief of Actar Publishers for thirteen years. His research focuses on architectural theory, publishing and dissemination, relational logics, and the intersections between architecture, nature, and art.