In a harsh environment such as La Cañada Real Galiana, Boa Mistura has brought out the best. Life, color, people, and the illusion that things can be different and have a future. A territory, which has been built fairly and unjustly since the 50s and which currently represents the largest irregular settlement in Europe, 16 km of different stories with the same reality formed by 7,600 people of 17 different nationalities trying to get ahead within of a territory of contrasts, of light-dark and stigmatized by the rest of the society of Madrid.
In the works carried out by Boa Mistura, which took place between June 27 and July 16, neighbors from all sectors of the neighborhood participated.
With an intelignete strategy, already experienced in other places from Brazil to Cuba, Boa Mistura has mixed color and poetry, in this case the lyrics of the song "El alma no tiene color" by Antonio Remache. The art applied to the public space as an engine of change, dynamic and transversal, with the aim of creating among neighbors a united community that allows them to improve their environment.
The project makes a chromatic journey, which starts from the red applied in Sector 1 and ends in the Sector & with the blue, accompanied by the lyrics of the song, reflecting the ideals that the neighbors of La Cañada want to project towards the world: soul , land, anger, heart ... An action that aims to give voice and visibility to this self-built linear city that lives in the shadow of the rest of the Community of Madrid, making visible the situation in which thousands of people live today and eliminating social stigmas.
