From October 2 to 31, Barcelona’s Can Travi Civic Center presented the work of Houda Bakkali. The exhibition celebrated beauty, color, movement, diversity, and a hopeful vision of life through the female figure, conceived as a tribute to the artist’s mother. The show was part of the Empodera’t Festival, organized by the Horta-Guinardó District, the Barcelona Institute of Culture, and Barcelona City Council.

Blending physical and digital art, the exhibition pursued a seamless fusion between traditional artistic language and cutting-edge technology. It showcased the transformative potential of digital art and tools such as augmented reality, virtual environments, and multimedia resources to create and disseminate meaning, activate dynamic and bidirectional engagement, and place the audience experience at the center of the exhibition. Creativity transcended spatial, temporal, and generational boundaries.

The exhibition was distinguished by two works that fused artistic expression with new technologies, using them as powerful vehicles for the dissemination of medical and scientific knowledge.

“When new technologies converge with artistic creation, they become an extraordinary tool to disseminate, democratize, and universalize scientific knowledge. In this exhibition, two of my works act as bridges, bringing science closer to the public through creativity. We speak about art in all its forms, and we also share science in all its forms,” — Houda Bakkali