The edition featured seven main interventions by Land of Julia at the San Pablo Health Center; MAZ on Predicadores Street; Nicolás Romero on Las Armas Street; Estefanía Abad on Zamoray Street; Ase Torralba in Callejón del Sacramento; Spogo on Agustina de Aragón Street; and Curro Claret at the greenhouse on Solar Miguel de Ara Street.
21ST EDITION IN REVIEW
Over these ten days, the projects occupied streets, facades, building entrances, public facilities and community spaces. The works addressed issues including care, coexistence, migration-related grief, home and housing, identity and diversity, and urban nature.
One of this edition's highlights was "Building Entrances Project," developed together with Zaragoza Vivienda, which brought artistic interventions inside residential buildings. The "Neighborhood Greenhouse" created a space for plant care and exchange, as well as hosting activities and conversations among residents and collecting proposals about its possible future as a community space.
The festival reached its closing after months of work and social mapping of the area, a process that established contact with more than thirty organizations, community groups and associations involved in the various activities on the program. "This edition confirms that intervening in a space does not only mean transforming its walls, but also listening to it, moving through it and building relationships with the people who live there," said Alfredo Martínez, co-founder and coordinator of the International Asalto Urban Art Festival.
Espacio Asalto, located at 59 San Pablo Street, hosted much of the program over the final weekend, with family workshops, presentations, meetings with cultural agents and independent spaces, and activities open to the public.
Guided tours of the interventions completed the program, with every session reaching full capacity, while the Asalto Fair brought together more than twenty stalls run by artists and creators dedicated to exhibiting, selling and promoting contemporary work. The fair closed its doors this Sunday after drawing a significant number of visitors, with several workshops and tours sold out.
The Asalto Festival is organized by Asalto and Zaragoza City Council, with sponsorship from Maquinza, Ambar, Tranvía de Zaragoza and Montana Colors, and support from the Government of Aragón and the Ministry of Culture.
