The women who moves us, a portrait of the TMB female workers
From 8 March.
As from 8 March, and to mark International Women’s Day, passengers passing through the Universitat metro station will be able to see the mural Women Who Move Us, highlighting the role of women workers in the organisation.
This portrait of TMB women shows different profiles and professions of anonymous women, and is a work that uses a stencil technique by artist Andrea Michaelsson.
Andrea Michaelsson, alias Btoy, is an urban artist trained at the Barcelona Institute of Photographic Studies. In 2002, she began experimenting with free and improvised visual techniques (aerosol, paint, plastic, etc.), devoting herself as an artist to walls in the city.
Since then, she has painted murals on Barcelona’s streets, and exhibited her work in various cities such as Paris, London and Jakarta and at festivals such as The Cans Festival, where she collaborated with the artist Banksy, the Berlinkunsthalle museum in Bonn and the Tour 13 in Paris. Her work has also been displayed at the galleries N2 Galeria and SC Gallery.
Her work uses what could be termed as a mur trouvé approach, with its irregular surfaces, adding traces of pollution and advertising, where covered doorways and windows become the ideal frames for expression. Her characters remain frozen, gazing at the onlooker. These are portraits shaken up with brushstrokes, full of strength and colour.