Panadella by Juan Sánchez Sánchez
When a road disappears, what happens to the place it leads to? Does it get lost or does it continue to exist? Does it become a corpse, a memory, a new place, or everything at once?
"Panadella," which means "place to stop", explores an old enclave of services to the traveler that was very successful in the past. Located on a road that for years was a main one, it currently remains on a secondary highway as a living cultural vestige.
The series shows the pulse of a place against what seems inevitable. It investigates the existential tension and the dissolution of a place that has lost its status and its identity because of being displaced by technology. "Panadella" delves into a charismatic location from a supposedly extinct era that nevertheless survives on the outskirts.
Juan Sánchez Sánchez lives and works in Badalona, Spain.
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