Los olvidadosThe forgotten
Performance: "The forgotten ones" 2018Humanity has constantly evolved, with greater or lesser success towards greater tolerance and respect. In our historical-cultural tradition, however, we tend to remember wars and disasters in a generalized manner, and sometimes the celebration and defense events that had proved human being's desire to improve and reach a peaceful and harmonious coexistence are overlooked. For the society that survived the two world wars, the possibility of the massive and cruel destruction of millions of human beings was a difficult reality to digest and even more to explain and prompted not only systemic changes in society and culture but also as all we also know in art (it is not by chance that Dadaism and later postmodernism evolved from its ashes). The Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man responds to a desire not to repeat the barbarism of that era. However, its content is today dragged by governments, organizations and all kinds of conglomerates that either have forgotten the story or try to erase a text that puts some limits that they are not interested in recognizing. This piece presents the Altamira Cave concept as the space of a modern space to create a durational performance that transcribes the text of the Fundamental Human Rights * in a compulsive and methodical way, as the material is written, its ephemeral quality speaks about the fragility, it will deteriorate, fall, and be forgetten ... meanwhile the artist struggles to give firmness and body to a text that she wishes would have more value.*The text we transcribe has an adaptation made with the collaboration of Elena Navarro (lawyer) and my own (Law Degree) in which we intend to refresh the text by collecting topics such as gender equality and excluding possible dangers such as racism, colonialism..
