The mural Todos Juntos Podemos Parar el SIDA (Together We Can Stop AIDS) is a work of urban art by Keith Haring that transforms a wall into a statement against the stigma of AIDS. Painted in Barcelona in 1989 at the height of the epidemic, the piece turned a public space into a symbol of solidarity. Repeated red figures in motion stride forward like a visual chorus demanding collective action. Haring’s language is direct, almost childlike, yet impossible to ignore. Decades later, the replica next to the MACBA serves as a reminder that art can also turn a wall into a form of protest.
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Haring painted the mural at a time when the disease was wreaking havoc and he himself had been diagnosed.
The original 1989 mural was lost due to urban redevelopment in 1992, but the MACBA created a replica using a stencil technique.
