Judge Eugenia Canal, born in Cantabria and based in Catalonia, balances her judicial career with a passion for art. The sea, a constant source of inspiration, has provided her with the necessary energy to handle complex and highly responsible decisions in her profession.

With a discreet and approachable demeanor, Canal describes justice as an essential service for ensuring a dignified life for citizens. "Justice is a service to the citizen, to ensure that people can live with dignity; I believe in justice, perhaps it's a utopia, but we must fight for it to exist and be applied correctly," she asserts. "Being a judge has given me a special sensitivity," she states.

While working in the courts of Barcelona, Canal studied painting and creation at the Escola Massana for five years. Her first exhibition took place between 2003 and 2005, stemming from an artistic vocation inherited from her family.

The exhibition Futura, presented at the Sala Barradas, invites visitors on a temporal journey of approximately 2,000 years, stepping into the shoes of future anthropologists studying the remnants of our present. The exhibition anticipates what is to come and pays homage to women as "guardians of time."

According to the artist, "every trace is already the future." Futura proposes "excavating what does not yet exist," observing the present and the future through the discovery of yet-to-be-found vestiges. "I transform emotions into paintings," she adds, "in Futura, one can contemplate a future archaeological site with vestiges of our present," asserts the judge.