An image baptized as The load either The effort, which features a bronze sculpture of a woman carrying all her household chores and three children on her back, has made a fortune on the internet. It appears in dozens of posts everywhere – Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, X and TikTok – and they always attribute it to Jaume Plensa and place it in Barcelona, ​​​​at the intersection of Princesa Street and Via Laietana. The problem is that the image is fake. Not only is the sculpture not by Jaume Plensa and not located in Barcelona, ​​​​but it does not exist.

It was a long time since Jaume Plensa lamented that he was loved more around the world than in Barcelona. Acceptance of the Gold Medal for Cultural Merit, the highest cultural award given by Barcelona City Council, spoke of his origins. "In those distant times, babies like me arrived from Paris flying over the Pyrenees. An ancestor of Pilsen in Algerri. We both looked for the south," said Plensa, who recalled how the large sculptures he has installed all over the world, from New York to Tokyo, via London, Madrid, Chicago, Shanghai, Sao Paulo, Boston, Liverpool, Bonn, Mel by "bridges and invisible links."

Silence is one of the pillars of Jaume Plensa's work. Through words and works, Plensa repeatedly calls for silence in order to open a door to introspection amidst the noise of contemporary society. This idea is expressed even more clearly in the sculptures in the series Nest [Nest]. These are women's heads that are still in the stone block. He exhibited three last year in the smallest church in Venice, that of San Gallo, and now exhibits two others in the Senda gallery in Barcelona with the title of Murmur, that is, a soft murmur like that made by a group of people praying in a low voice.