HITMANIA began in Barcelona by 2020 as a notebook and slowly became a way of moving through the city. I photograph, collect and keep whatever interrupts my attention such as: discarded photographs from albums left on the street, ID pictures, tourist’s maps, used tickets, advertisements, handwritten notes, medical documents, fragments of language, drawings, objects and small remains that would normally disappear.

I walk without knowing what I am looking for, and most of the time I do not know why I am taking something with me; but later, these fragments meet again inside the notebook. I cut them or clean them, paint over, write around, damage them, hide parts or place them next to images that seem to have nothing to do with each other. Personally I’m interested in what happens in that distance between them because sometimes meaning often appears only after this forced encounter.

For me the city is not something that can be completely understood or documented in its entirety. It is unstable, full of systems trying to organise people, like maps, cameras, advertisements, institutions, identifications, rules; but at the same time it is irrational, ironic, violent, intimate, superstitious and mysterious. Walking through it sometimes feels like entering a crime scene where the crime itself is missing. There are clues everywhere, but no final explanation.