Tierra que la multitud invade arises from a visual research into the spatial and social transformations caused by urban displacement processes in Granada since the Franco dictatorship: revitalization of historic city centers, creation of peripheral neighborhoods in former agricultural lands (vega), phenomena of speculation and gentrification, urban expansion projects centered on large shopping malls, and new residential developments that blur the city’s boundaries and strip certain communities of their cultural identity. “People have a history because they transform nature,” wrote anthropologist Maurice Godelier. Based on this idea, the video maps the memory of emblematic neighborhoods such as La Manigua, Albayzín, and Sacromonte—territories impacted by urban restructuring and class violence—leading to the emergence of new districts like Zaidín, Chana, or Almanjáyar.

Built from archival materials, newspaper footage, testimonies, and original images, the piece offers a critical reading of urban transformation as a mechanism of structural violence. Produced during the pandemic, the isolation imposed a different mode of listening. The voices guiding the video were not recorded live, but instead drawn from written testimonies and conversations. Later, young people—mostly graduates from Granada—lent their voices to interpret the accounts of an older generation expelled from their neighborhoods. This displacement of voice unintentionally activates a second layer of dislocation, creating resonance between times, bodies, and territories.

The video is part of the project of the same name, Tierra que la multitud invade, selected and produced for FACBA21 (University of Granada) and exhibited at the Federico García Lorca Center in Granada.