Mural Centre Cívic Sant Martí

The Cuban-American artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada used photographs of the faces of different women from the Sant Martí neighbourhood to create his 300 m² mural: a composite portrait made up of their different features.

It covers the entire side wall of the building that houses the community hub, the Centre Cívic de Sant Martí, and shows us that beauty also lies in those things closest to us. It is a work of pure urban metamorphosis.

Rodríguez-Gerada moved to Barcelona in 2002 and the mural is part of his series Identities, which seeks to act as a counterbalance to the overexposure of certain famous personalities, politicians, actress and singers in contemporary societies. The artist emphasises the idea that, by subverting codes, an anonymous face can also become a social icon and cultural reference.

A woman looking at the horizon stops us in our tracks and prompts us to wonder: who is the person in the portrait, what is she thinking and what is her everyday life like?