Confronting Dismantled Memories: Remembrance and Civil War

The topic of the Spanish Civil War and its consequences has proven an unusual one for many artists working after the end of Franco’s dictatorship. With a few notable exceptions, the silence imposed by the so-called ‘transition to democracy’ seems to have been internalised by the art world until relatively recently. The artists participating in the Confronting Dismantled Memories: Remembrance and Civil War exhibition now break this silence, turning their gaze back to what happened during the war and to the silence which engulfed a large part of the population on the losing side, who suffered the consequences of the ensuing dictatorial regime for 40 long years.