The suitcase W.B.

The suitcase W.B.
Photography in dibond-aluminum
Suitcase with lead
 
 
After the World War II, young German people asked their fathers: What did you do
during the war, father?
That moment of questions without an answer used to be called the hour of lead.
 
When Walter Benjamin passed way on September 26th 1940 in a strategic corner in
the town of Portbou, there used to be a place named The House of Germans, an
euphemism that until today refers to the bunker where the Gestapo was.
 
The House of Germans is nowadays part of the tourist route which Time Out describes
as “An amazing landscape with stories about nazis making it very attractive.Taking a
selfie here will make you a real cultivated person. On top of that, if you visit it on a day
with north wind and get close to the cliffs, your photo will be for sure quite dramatic.”
 
To recover the memory of places with the real historical and cultural context is a duty
we ought to do if we do not wish to repeat some past events.
 
In German the world Gewalt means VIOLENCE but also institutional POWER.
 
This project contains images of the making of the installation Panopticon_frontera 601 that was presented in Barcelona in June 2019 at La Virreina Centro de la Imagen in Barcelona and the works related to the Lead and Silver Time project. Forced drifts.
 
Exposed in
Cànem Gallery. Castellon. 2018