L’Estel ferit (The Wounded Star) is a sculpture by Rebecca Horn made up of four irregularly stacked blocks of steel and glass. Unveiled in 1992 on Barceloneta beach, it rises 10 metres like a broken star facing the Mediterranean. Its silhouette recalls the former beach bars and the quarts de casa (small, subdivided working-class homes), modest seaside dwellings that predated the Olympic transformation of the coastline. Between memory and modernity, the work turns fragility into an urban symbol.
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Although its official name is L’Estel ferit, many Barcelonians call it “Los Cubos” (The Cubes).
