L’heure d’hiver Barcelone : Exhibition

Presented as installations, Lo que va por debajo by Pedro G. Romero, Anhel de llum by Alba Cros, and four videos by the Video-Nou collective compose a fragmented cartography of practices, bodies and narratives that emerge “from below” — where tensions between visibility and erasure, intimacy and collective struggle take form.

Through the popular flamenco of Nou Barris, the everyday gestures filmed by Alba Cros, or the militant and community-based interventions of Video-Nou, these works share a common attention to minoritized forms of life: sexual dissidence, subaltern cultures, migrant experiences, childhood, ecology, and neighbourhood-based resistance. The camera becomes both a tool for testimony and for political activation, whether used in an intimate, poetic register or as a collective instrument of counter-information and social mobilisation.

Rooted in different temporalities — from post-Franco Barcelona to contemporary perspectives — these videos engage in a dialogue around a shared question: how to film the popular without fixing or confining it; how to render underground realities visible without neutralising them; how to make cinema a space of encounter between memory, desire and social transformation. Together, they sketch an alternative history of Barcelona, told from its margins and its struggles.