Resiliencias
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Somewhere between a diagram, a family tree and a crono-cartography on power, Resiliencias [Resiliences] examines and underlines the concept of democracy established during the Spanish Transition that served to reintegrate high ranking officials of the Franco regime into society, including previous privileges and places of power.  

It is through the people and the events that shaped 1977 all the way to 1996 that Resiliencias analyzes that which allowed those responsible for the repression, torture and death of the darkest period in Spanish history to move about, without impunity and with relative ease. 

In this project, impunity and the repression of memory represent the condition of possibility of our current political regime. At the same time, modernization and the refinement of the frameworks that made the franquista machinery possible are denounced. Some officials of said framework are sought after by international law to this day, yet they continue to occupy key positions in our new system, assimilated by both the private and the political spheres of power.

Resiliencias reminds us that the construction of our recent history is a pact made from the circles of power. It is a construct unable to offer anything memorable, exemplary, or bloodless.