CLICK CLICK CARMEL
:: Espai Jova Bocanord
2019
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Click Click Carmel is a collective photographic exhibition that pays tribute to the residents of El Carmel, a popular neighborhood in Barcelona. Conceived as a window into their lives and an ode to the area, the project places local residents at the very center, inviting them to portray their everyday experiences through their own gaze.
Developed within the framework of the cultural mediation program promoted by Espai Jove Boca Nord, the project is based on a simple but powerful premise: a neighborhood only truly exists when the people who live there feel they are part of it.
Thirteen neighbors of different ages and backgrounds were each given a disposable camera with a 39-exposure roll. Over a set period of time, they photographed fragments of their daily lives—walks, relationships, routines, and encounters—capturing what truly shapes their neighborhood. Once completed, the cameras were returned, resulting in a collection of 495 photographs, which form the core of the exhibition. Chance, playfulness, and uncertainty become essential creative elements, offering a counterpoint to digital image-making.
The project takes the neighborhood as both scale and subject. At a time when urban life increasingly erodes community bonds and mutual support networks, Click Click Carmel looks back to the idea of the neighborhood as a space of shared memory, social interaction, and collective identity. Through the eyes of its residents, the exhibition gathers traces of that non-hegemonic memory: places, relationships, values, and everyday rituals that define El Carmel from within.
Credits:
Concept, management, and production by Inés Muñoz and Tania Cearreta, in collaboration with Espai Jove Boca Nord and Revelab Studio.
09/10/19 – 12/11/19