Mª Amparo Gomar Vidal: (Dis)appeared Objects. Carme Center for Contemporary Culture
Exhibition Catalogue created by the artist at the Carme Centre of Contemporary Culture - February-April 2021. It showcases some of the grave objects discovered, recovered and restored that belonged to some of the murdered victims: Miguel Galán’s shirt, Pedro Simón's button and pencil, vials from Grave Pit 126 alongside names that permitted the identification of some of the remains, José Alba's tie, the strings used to handcuff Salvador Tortajada, Francisco Sanz's postcard to his wife and a photograph of Manuel Hernández's son, that his family still retains in their possession.
The exhibition’s audiovisuals echo the relationships established between these objects, the executed victims, and their descendants who regain possession of those objects and grip them in their hands. In the catalogue, each object gives rise to a chapter in which several authors linked to the movement to recover democratic memory reflect on an object, the victim, the period of repression or the process of exhumation. They write in collaboration with María Amparo Gomar Vidal, Vicent Gabarda, Miguel Mezquida, Azahara Martínez, Javier Iglesias, Alejandro Calpe, Vicent García Devís, Manuel Polo, Elisa García Prósper, Andrea Moreno, Lorena Menes, Michael Fehr and the restaurateur María Antonia Zalbidea Muñoz .
Pedro Luis Alonso
Translation by Luis Barra