"The Little Birds" is the Last mural I've painted in the new student residence @livensa_studenthousing_es in Granada, produced by @rebobinart

“the little birds” is also the name of the neighborhood where this intervention is located. I liked the idea of representing the little birds coming out of the head as a symbol of creativity and freedom for the future students who will live there, who are not afraid to let their ideas fly.

A mural art intervention by illustrator Marina Capdevila on a 242 square metre wall in the new student residence in Granada is the finishing touch to Livensa Living's new student residence. Here, the Catalan illustrator has left her unmistakable artistic imprint on the mural including her distinctive rebellious and modern eighty-year-old characters, as a celebration of lifelong learning.

As the Spanish popular saying goes: “The devil is wiser for being old than for being evil”*. It affirms that experience and therefore age, is synonymous with wisdom, which has led artist Marina Capdevila to draw on this popular saying giving it a 180-degree twist for her urban intervention in Los Pajaritos neighbourhood. The Catalan has portrayed an elderly woman showing a millennial attitude and aesthetics, with birds flying out of her head. These birds, which refer to ideas, knowledge and imagination, are the element linking free, rebellious and "cool" youth spirit to maturity and its lessons, acquired by any human being as time goes by. After all, what old and young people have in common is the fact that we never stop learning, whether it is because of the lessons life teaches us or as a result of that never-ending curiosity to discover new things.

The work also winks at Los Pajaritos crowded neighbourhood, where the new student residence Livensa Living Granada Fuentenueva is located, whose construction has brought new life to the area and has opened up a new pedestrian area and a large square for the use and enjoyment of both youth and the elderly.

The mural has been managed by the creative producer company Rebobinart and was carried out from 11th to 24th April

Artworks in Granada