La Lleialtat Santsenca hosts until July 15 the exhibition by the Cultural Association A BAO A QU Compartim camins, a collective photographic project promoted by a group of young people from diverse backgrounds who, for months, have shared experiences, journeys, and creative processes through photography, cinema, and conversation.
The exhibition presents portraits of people from all over the world who have shared their memories, life trajectories, and migratory experiences with the participants. At the same time, it also includes portraits of the authors themselves, accompanied by fragments of the texts they have written during the process, giving voice to their experiences and reflections.
The participants are boys and girls from Catalonia, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Mali, Morocco, and Senegal, who speak languages as diverse as Amazigh, Arabic, Bambara, Fula, Mandinka, Serer, Wolof, Catalan, and Spanish. Some have recently arrived in Catalonia, while others were already rooted there.
Through photography
Since they started the workshop in December 2025, they have traveled together to numerous places in Barcelona and its surroundings, from Montjuïc to Barceloneta, passing through Raval, Sants, Torre Baró, Montgat, Vic, or Folgueroles. During this time, they have photographed the city, the landscape, trees, the sea, the sky, and the moon, turning these elements into starting points to remember other landscapes and other places linked to their origins.
Trees occupy a prominent space within the project. For the participants, they symbolize the connections that unite people with very different stories. Some trees that are part of their memories have been drawn from memory, while family and friends in their countries of origin have sent them photographs of those trees they had not been able to see for a long time.
Listening and sharing stories
The project has also been an opportunity to establish connections with people from all over the world, whom they have interviewed and portrayed. The conversations, they explain, have allowed them to listen to difficult stories, but also narratives full of beauty, significant encounters, and memories of other times.
Compartim camins (We Share Paths) is the result of the fourth edition of La ciutat compartida a través de la fotografia i el cinema (The Shared City Through Photography and Cinema), an initiative developed in workshop format that brings together recently arrived young migrants in Catalonia with other young people born or already rooted in the country. The project takes place between December and June with weekly meetings dedicated to photographic and cinematographic creation, as well as the shared discovery of the city.
In this edition, the process has been accompanied by photographers Berta Vicente Salas and Ingrid Ferrer, together with the team formed by Núria Aidelman, Ariadna Essomba, Júlia Izaguirre, Tomàs Malavía and Agnès Sebastià.
The exhibition invites the public to discover the shared stories that its participants have been building and to continue, as proposed by the authors themselves, walking together.
About BAO A QU
BAO A QU is a cultural association founded in Barcelona in 2004 and dedicated to the ideation and development of projects that link culture, artistic creation and education. Its proposals are characterized by prioritizing collective creation processes and generating shared spaces among children, young people, creators and teachers, mainly in public schools and institutes and during school hours. It has also been a pioneer in curatorial, curation and mediation projects carried out by young people such as Joves programadors (Young Programmers) or Baules (Links). Since 2019, it has also been carrying out specific projects with groups of unaccompanied young migrants. More information on its website.
