Barcelona, November 24, 2025. The Barcelona University Centre for Arts and Design (BAU) hosted the second edition of the Life at the End of Life festival on November 21 and 22. The event featured the collaboration of Fundación Xana through art therapist Tània Subirats, coordinator of the Foundation’s Emotional Support Area, where she works with families, children and adolescents undergoing bereavement and end-of-life processes.
As part of the festival, Subirats organized the experiential workshop ‘Duende, Art as a Strategy for Working Through Grief Processes’, aimed at professionals and volunteers who work with patients suffering from serious illnesses or receiving palliative care. Participants were able to experience expressing their vision of the end of life on a blank canvas. During the workshop, the group created a space for exploration, construction and analysis of grief support through art therapy using the Duende methodology.
Duende Process Painting (EDPP) by Abbe Miller is an artistic methodology that enhances autonomy and emotional self-regulation and offers a way to work with patients and their families on end-of-life stages or the phases of grief. It is based on artistic creation on a single canvas over an extended period of time. This methodology helps integrate internal experiences—emotions, trauma, grief and conflicts—by transforming them through art.
Subirats accompanied the participants’ creative process over two days.

About ‘Life at the End of Life’


Life at the End of Life is a festival that aims to address death from a wide range of perspectives, with the main objective of breaking taboos and providing people with tools and information to help them live better. To this end, it programmed more than 40 cultural, educational and awareness-raising activities to destigmatize and challenge prejudices surrounding death.