Transit Walls 2016

Over the La Mercè weekend in 2016, Rebobinart joined the main organisations working for urban art in Barcelona in BCN Trànsit Walls, an initiative promoted by the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona with the support of Montana Colors. The theme of “transit”, proposed by the curator Arcadi Poch, turned the ring-road passageway into a space for artistic expression that invited viewers to reflect on the idea. Each organisation approached the concept from its own perspective, which also shaped its curatorial proposal.

Rebobinart approached transit through time: a conception of time that is not divided into present, past and future, but understood as a changing continuum, a reality that flows, reshapes itself and never lets itself be caught. Heraclitus, known as the philosopher of change, was one of the first to link the essence of time to becoming, to permanent change. Time, then, is nothing but transit: a constant becoming where nothing stays, nothing stops and nothing simply is.

From this idea, Rebobinart worked with the Argentine artist Hyuro, whose poetic, metaphorical style and melancholic visual language brought together everything the piece needed. The sequence of the work shows the process of a natural, human act and invites viewers to empathise with it. Trànsit Walls gave urban art a central role in the festivities, with artists painting 200 metres of the passageway wall, open to everyone. The participating organisations and artists were: Difusor with Pau Magrané, Roger, Serret, Mike Swaney and Sawe; Enrrolla’t with Spogo, Thomas, Alacalle, Aleix Gordo, Btoy, Cayn Sánchez, Dase, Elisa Ancori, Flow and Kafre; Kognitif with Popay, Cinta Vidal, Uriginal, Kenor and Lucas Milá; and Rebobinart with Hyuro.