I have the great good fortune of having been admitted at a workshop under the name 'After ... The Moment of Remembrance ', held the week that comes in the Reina Sofia, and I meet with fourteen other lucky people, with the intention of thinking, develop, create, debate, discuss and learn all about from the relationship between narrative memory and history, and networking with personal identity, family and collective imagination, between repression, trauma and resistance to forgetting, exploring visual documents, experiences, poetic devices, etc.
The workshop is an initiative embedded in all a very interesting project led by Virginia Villaplana , an artist and university professor Valencia, "The Moment of Remembrance" , complete with an interesting documentary novel, an exhibition of photographs in which a documentary (in the gallery Off Limits) and a cycle at the Reina Sofía cinefórums. This project focuses on the tragedy of mass graves in the cemetery of Valencia, where, between the end of civil war and 1945, were buried thousands of victims of Franco's repression. Virginia Villaplana claimed his memory with a strong poetic and drinking from a wide range of historical sources and artistic resources, ranging from research and documentation to capture testimonials, etc.. This effort has also added value that transcends the necessary recovery of democratic and antifascist memory: what makes Villplana Virginia, through and from sureivindicación, is pushing us to reflect on the very stuff of memory, what of the forgotten traumatic taxes, the hard boundaries between history, narrative and its imprint on our personal identities, family and cultural ...
I spent part of this afternoon snorkeling in the family photographic archive, hunting and capture of images for a first exercise we do in the workshop. This immersion in the past really mine but even precedes me (before my birth) has been an intense journey, strange and yet very close and personal, perhaps a taste of what live next week.
will continue reporting.
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