La Barceloneta, 1960. Fotografies de Xavier Agramont

This exhibition invites us to immerse ourselves in La Barceloneta of 1960 through the lens of Xavier Agramont, a photographer little known to the general public but the author of an extensive and highly valuable documentary archive. It is an immersive exhibition, without screens or artificial intelligence, which relies on large-format printed images and an exclusive acoustic design. The photographs and a soundscape created specifically for the exhibition transport us to a neighbourhood marked by work in the port and at sea, streets full of life, local shops and the popular merenderos at the water's edge, as meeting and social spaces. At the height of the Francoist dictatorship - while the regime tried to project an image of economic prosperity - the city lived under strict political and social control. This display offers a testimony of the reality of a working-class neighbourhood, of modest housing and curtailed freedoms, where neighbourly cohesion and shared life in public space became a form of everyday resistance. Captured on a Saturday in 1960, the images preserved in the collection of the Casa de la Barceloneta 1761 reveal Agramont's ability to immortalise gestures, glances and spontaneous scenes with great human value. The walk through the neighbourhood's streets is complemented by photographs of the port, from the archive of the Museu Marítim de Barcelona. Opening: Saturday 7 November at 12:00.