Festeig — Guillem Font, Lleida
Guillem Font · black-and-white mural on a gable, 2026 · Carrer de Roger de Llúria, 23 or 24, Pardinyes, Lleida, Spain
Photo: as published on World Art Utopia (New Street Art! Vol. 102, 24 October 2026). Artwork: Guillem Font.
Guillem Font painted these giant snails climbing through water plants on a gable at Carrer de Roger de Llúria, 23 or 24, in Lleida’s Pardinyes district, for the GAMMA 2026 urban art festival. Local press says the black-and-white mural turns attention to the plants and animals of the nearby Parc de la Mitjana and the fragility of ecosystems. Source Source Checked
Reported Oct 2026. Evidence date: 2026-10-05, when La Ciutat reported the finished mural at Roger de Llúria 23 after the festival closed on Sunday 4 October. We found no later dated photo. Source Checked
💡 4 things to know
- It opened the festivalGAMMA 2026 opened in Pardinyes with the unveiling of the work in progress on Guillem Font’s mural in Carrer de Roger de Llúria, and the mayor of Lleida, Fèlix Larrosa, visited the wall. Source Source Checked
- One of four wallsFont was one of four invited artists, with Marta Lapeña, Slim Safont and Txus Montejano; the city’s culture department organized the festival, with artistic direction by CactuSoup. Source Source Checked
- Two snails in water plantsLa Ciutat describes the work as a black-and-white mural featuring two snails surrounded by aquatic vegetation. Source Checked
- Why snailsThe report says the mural focuses on the flora and fauna linked to the Parc de la Mitjana, the riverside park beside Pardinyes, and on the fragility of ecosystems. Source Reported
📍 Where it is
Gable at Carrer de Roger de Llúria, 23 or 24 (the city’s closing report and La Ciutat say 23; the city’s murals map, its guided-visit listing and Segre say 24), Pardinyes, Lleida, Spain Source Source Source Source Source Conflicting
Google Street View on Carrer de Roger de Llúria is from March 2026 or older and predates the mural, so the button opens a plain map.
🗓️ Sightings
- 202628 Sep
GAMMA 2026 begins in Pardinyes
- 202629 Sep
La Mañana reports the festival start
- 20265 Oct
La Ciutat reports the finished mural
Green stamps mark dated photographs; amber stamps mark records or reports; red stamps mark loss. Publication dates are not camera dates.
🗞️ In the sources
L’art urbà pren Pardinyes: el GAMMA deixa quatre nous murals al barri de Lleida
“Al carrer Roger de Llúria, 23, Guillem Font ha creat una obra en blanc i negre protagonitzada per dos cargols envoltats de vegetació aquàtica.”
“At Carrer Roger de Llúria 23, Guillem Font has created a black-and-white work featuring two snails surrounded by aquatic vegetation.”
El GAMMA omple el barri de Pardinyes d’art urbà amb quatre grans murals
“El festival d’art urbà GAMMA 2026 es va inaugurar aquest dilluns a Pardinyes amb la descoberta dels treballs del mural que l’artista Guillem Font realitza al carrer Roger de Llúria.”
“The GAMMA 2026 urban art festival opened this Monday in Pardinyes with the unveiling of the work on the mural that the artist Guillem Font is painting on Carrer Roger de Llúria.”
Pardinyes ja adquireix un color especial
“M’agrada pintar la flora i fauna, i em van comentar que el parc de la Mitjana era un pulmó verd de Lleida”
“I like painting flora and fauna, and I was told the Parc de la Mitjana was a green lung of Lleida,” Font told Segre.
✅ The facts
- Title
- Festeig, as captioned in our post; none of the sources we found names the work Source Unconfirmed
- Year
- 2026, painted during GAMMA, which ran from 28 September to Sunday 4 October 2026 Source Source Checked
- Festival
- GAMMA, Lleida’s urban art festival, 2026 edition in Pardinyes, organized by the city’s culture department Source Source Checked
- Place
- Carrer de Roger de Llúria, 23 or 24 (the city’s closing report and La Ciutat say 23; the city’s murals map, its guided-visit listing and Segre say 24), Pardinyes, Lleida Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Conflicting
🔗 Related
All sources & image credits
- surtdecasa.cat — GAMMA 2026 program and invited artists
- agenda.cultura.gencat.cat — Catalan cultural agenda, GAMMA, 28 September to 6 October 2026
- paeria.cat — Ajuntament de Lleida press release, 28 September 2026
- teleponent.cat — Teleponent, 29 September 2026
- lamanyana.cat — La Mañana, Jana Regué, 29 September 2026
- segre.com — Segre, “Pardinyes ja adquireix un color especial”, 29 September 2026
- cultura.paeria.cat — Ajuntament de Lleida, GAMMA 2026 murals map
- paeria.cat — Ajuntament de Lleida, guided visit of the GAMMA 2026 murals, 4 October 2026
- paeria.cat — Ajuntament de Lleida closing press release, 4 October 2026
- segre.com — Segre, “Els nous murals de Pardinyes reben les primeres visites”, 4 October 2026
- laciutat.cat — La Ciutat, Tatiana Fernández, 5 October 2026
- worldartutopia.com — New Street Art! (16 Photos) — Vol. 102, 24 October 2026 (our photo)
Photo: as published on World Art Utopia (New Street Art! Vol. 102, 24 October 2026). Artwork: Guillem Font.
Last checked: 27 October 2026 · How we verify art