Beauty and relevance are often measured by youth; street artist/muralist Marina Capdevila flips the script with humor, intelligence, empathy, and her own style of caricature. From Falset to Barcelona to walls across continents, her work has always carried a certain irreverence toward cultural clichés, replacing them with something both slyly funny and disarmingly affectionate. In “Forever Gold: The Glorious Age,” she brings that sensibility to Pforzheim, a city with a long history of craft and refinement, transforming its legacy of jewelry and watchmaking into a meditation on age, resilience, and the sparkling currency of a lived experience.

Capdevila has built her reputation by making elders her heroes—those often overlooked in many Western cultures. Here, two older women share a private, playful moment: one fastening earrings onto another, their laughter and conspiratorial glances are charged with dignity and warmth. It’s an image that appears deceptively simple but operates on multiple levels. A gesture of care. A nod to adornment as ritual. A reclamation of style and vitality that refuses invisibility. In Capdevila’s hands, it becomes both portrait and proclamation.

The mural settles into Pforzheim’s streetscape not as an ornament but as a conversation with history. Gold, the city’s calling card, is reimagined not as metal but as metaphor—character, wisdom, a glow that will not dim. Like the best of public art, Forever Gold speaks to its place while widening its lens.

Capdevila’s humor keeps the piece buoyant; her palette keeps it alive. People are people, wherever you are. Beneath the surface wit, there is a serious critique of our collective assumptions about beauty, femininity, and time. In celebrating aging not as decline but as an ascendant force, she joins a lineage of muralists who transform city walls into stages for new myths. And in Pforzheim, her protagonists gleam as vivid, indispensable figures of the now.