This week Barcelona is celebrating many events, architecture week brings together and launches presentations such as the winners of the Mies van der Rohe 2017, or the development of the video art festival Loop, in its fifteenth edition.
Among the dozens of interesting proposals we highlight the video Slow Living by Adrià Goula, for the Loop Barcelona Festival in the Gallery Objects de Carme Pinós. It is a short film with 15L films (Adrià Lahuerta and Carlota Coloma) on the Passeig de Sant Joan project in Barcelona by Lola Domenech.

The full version can only be seen in the Objects gallery, for those who are not in Barcelona a sample is the trailer in open, which can be seen below.
 

Statement by Adrià Goula

The space is what organises the image, what gives the guidelines for the camara to be followed. Constructed spaces contain a number of axles and aliniacions arising from the development of the project, leftover traces of the plans drawn by the architect. Filming following these traces in order to be able to unfold the space in a comprehensible way. Place yourself and move as requested by the space that we want to explain. This is not a subjective point of view, but an image that emanates from the object itself which is a consequence of his way of being, his way of showing himself. In front of this architectural background curtain, the complex and unpredictable movement of people.

Synopsis

The video consists of a continuos traveling in slow motion along four blocks of houses showing the new redevelopment of the Passeig de Sant Joan of Barcelona. Shot in wide angle from the sidewalk looking perpendicular to the axis of the street, the image unrolls as a complete whole street elevation. People with slow movements, promotes a photographic sense. Accompanied by a musical abstract composition  it gives an hypnotic feeling that leads to look at the details, from outside that space and time. The everyday street scenes become customary small still lifes, which looked from another time tinged with a melancholy sense of what one day will be lost.

 

Este proyecto ha sido producido por Adrià Goula Photo i 15L films con el soporte del Ajuntament de Barcelona i Escofet.

This project is based on the redevelopment of the Passeig de Sant Joan in Barcelona by Lola Domenech and has been produced by Adrià Goula and 15L Films with support from the Ajuntament de Barcelona and Escofet.

More information

Adrià Goula Sardà is an architect (ETSAB, 2000) and since 2004 combines architectural photography with personal works of an interdisciplinary nature. As an architectural photographer, he has completed more than two thousand commissions for renowned architects and for various public and private institutions, both nationally and internationally.

His photographs have been published in multiple magazines, monographs, books and specialized publications. In 2023 he was curator of the book Survey Barcelona, ​​commissioned by the Barcelona City Council to offer a photographic overview of the actions carried out in the city during the last eight years.

He currently teaches the Master of Architecture at La Salle Campus Barcelona – URL and the Master of Landscape Design. He was a professor at Elisava in the subject of Space Communication between 2015 and 2019, and a professor of architectural photography at the Escuela Sert of the COAC between 2010 and 2015.

His personal work is based on photography, which functions as a starting point, as notes on certain topics of interest that are later deepened and expanded through works in different formats, such as installation, sculpture, drawing or video.

He has participated in conferences, talks and workshops at different congresses and schools of architecture such as ETSAB, ETSAV, IED, Elisava, Eina, the University of Alcalá, the University of Navarra, the School of Architecture of Umeå (Sweden), the Bienal de Arquitectura de Buenos Aires 2017, the Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea and will be a speaker at the next UIA congress, which will be held in Barcelona in July 2026.

In 2011, the Esteyco Foundation published the monographic book De-Construcción, in which images of elements under construction were compared with elements under demolition, creating visual parallels between them.

Awards and recognitions.-

-His work Re-Edificatoria, about buildings under rehabilitation, was part of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2016, awarded the Golden Lion.
-Received the Bienalba Award for Photographic Production in Architecture at the 2017 Buenos Aires Architecture Biennial.
-In 2020 he received the Silver and Bronze Lux awards in the Architecture and Interior Photography category.
-In 2021 he was awarded in the Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism in the photography section.
-An image from the Cota 0 project, about the floods in Valencia, was a finalist in the AENA25 Awards and was exhibited at Las Naves de Gamazo in Santander, while the complete project was presented at the ArtPhotoBcn26 Festival at the DHub in Barcelona with the H2O Gallery.

Exhibitions.-

-The Monochroms project was exhibited at Arts Santa Mònica on the occasion of Art Photo Bcn (2020). -Participated with the Càmera Glòries installation in the Barcelona Model Architecture Festival (May 2022)
-The multidisciplinary project Cel·la Nòmada, arising from an investigation into the cell of the Barcelona Model prison in which his grandfather was imprisoned during the dictatorship, has participated in group exhibitions at the Felícia Fuster Foundation (October 2020), at Lab36 at the Senda Gallery (June 2020), at MAC (Mataró Art Contemporani, February-March 2022), and was the subject of a monographic exhibition at the Gallery H2O (2021). It has also evolved into new proposals presented at the Lluèrnia Festival (November 2022), at the La Bianyal Festival (October 2022) and at an exhibition in Cal Xerta de Sant Pere de Riudebitlles (July 2022).
-The Dream City project has been exhibited in the Galería Antoni Pinyol (May 2023), in the Centro Cívico Pati Llimona in Barcelona (September 2023), in the DHub in Barcelona as part of the Art Photo Bcn Festival (October 2023) and in the Festival Fonament 2026 in Calonge (October 2025).

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Published on: May 24, 2017
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metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
"Slow Living by Adrià Goula, at Loop Barcelona Festival" METALOCUS. Accessed
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