Ocupar les golfes

Occupying the Attics. Imaginaries of Residential Emergency is an artistic proposal by Ada Fuentes and Biel Llinàs that reflects on the tensions of contemporary housing in Barcelona. Starting from the idea that inhabiting is also contesting space, the project questions the home as a refuge and presents it as a place of conflict, negotiation and precariousness. The exhibition brings together several artistic research projects developed since 2020, which explore the housing crisis through the experience of shared flats and the rising cost of housing. Concepts such as self storage serve to analyse both the accumulation of objects and the commodification of everyday life, where even the individual becomes one more element to be fitted into increasingly reduced spaces. Through installations, photographs and other formats, the project highlights how the imaginaries of the home, often shaped by aspirational and media models, contrast with the reality of precariousness and urban inequality. In this context, housing ceases to be a right and becomes an object of speculation. Occupying the Attics thus proposes a critical and transversal view of current domestic life, exploring new ways of inhabiting and rethinking marginal spaces, such as attics, as possible alternatives in the face of the lack of space and resources.