Catalonia Jam: Spring Graffiti Hits the Walls near Barcelona

As the weather turns warmer, activities on the streets become more fevered, energetic, free.

Graffiti writers burst out of the doors to their apartments and houses with backpacks filled with markers and cans, looking for opportunities to express themselves, to claim space, to be seen. Last week in Spain, a crew of the most actively known writers in Catalonia got together for a graffiti jam on the embankments of the Rio Congost a few miles from Barcelona. BSA contributor and photographer Lluis Olive took a day trip to the area to document and share the results of the jam with our readers.

Aryz. Detail. Riu Congost. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Aryz. Detail. Riu Congost. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Aryz. Riu Congost. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Harry Bones, Musa, Japon, SunkOne, and Aryz. Detail. Riu Congost. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Harry Bones & Musa. Riu Congost. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Harry Bones. Detail. Riu Congost. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Harry Bones. Riu Congost. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Musa. Riu Congost. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
SunkOne and Aryz. Riu Congost. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
SunkOne. Riu Congost. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Japon, SunkOne, and Aryz. Detail. Riu Congost. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
Japon. Riu Congost. Catalonia, Spain. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)
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