Crossing Seas and Walls

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The sea has a great impact on the imagination of society. For many people it is synonymous with freedom, adventure, knowledge, depth, and Traspasando marres y muros is an exhibition that emphasizes this emotional connection between the sea and a group of young minors lacking freedom.

The exhibition was born from the Traspasando Muros project, coordinated by the SETBA Foundation, a private non-profit organization that organizes artistic and cultural projects with social value aimed at groups at risk of exclusion. It is an artistic and participatory proposal, directed by the artist Marcel·lí Antúnez, which has been carried out with young people deprived of liberty from the Can Llupià Educational Center for Juvenile Justice. The boys and girls of this center decided to paint a wall in the center with the sea as the central theme, understood as a border area - many of them crossed it with a boat - but also freedom.

With this exhibition, the Barcelona Maritime Museum continues its social commitments by hosting artistic works carried out by young people who delve into the concept of the sea as a space of freedom; revealing a story of young inmates who overcame, beginning with the difficulties of the trip, the temptations and dangers of the society that welcomes them, and the importance of culture to train and achieve labor and social insertion.

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