Joan Ramos Martínez

BARCELON_

This project explores urban experience through prism of incompleteness. Through everyday scenes and anonymous figures, the photographs capture sensation of being present without ever fully arriving, of inhabiting a city without finding a place within it.

Barcelona is portrayed here as an architecture of transit: bodies that cross without touching, suspended gazes, gestures caught between movement and waiting. Each image suggests a search that is not always conscious, never resolved, yet gives shape to our shared life.

The title, BARCELON_, leaves its final letter in suspense. It is not an omission, but a fissure, a sign that something is missing. The city thus becomes a metaphor for a fragmented identity, an unfinished construction that we share without ever completing.

BARCELON_ - Photo 1
Parallel solitudes Barcelona, December 16, 2023
BARCELON_ - Photo 2
Facing the sea Barcelona, December 31, 2022
BARCELON_ - Photo 3
City in shards Barcelona, October 26, 2022
BARCELON_ - Photo 4
The walk you don't remember Barcelona, February 16, 2025
BARCELON_ - Photo 5
Seen through shards New York, November 24, 2024
BARCELON_ - Photo 6
Dissolving crowd Barcelona, March 28, 2023
BARCELON_ - Photo 7
Contrails and wings Barcelona, December 28, 2022
BARCELON_ - Photo 8
Parallel solitudes, Continued Barcelona, December 16, 2023