Curated by Ana Amado and Andrés Patino, the exhibition shows, through different pieces and formats, the process of transformation of rural Spain carried out between 1939 and 1971 by the Instituto Nacional de Colonización.
From 15 September, the FCAYC is hosting the exhibition 'Pueblos de colonización. Views of an invented landscape', curated by Ana Amado and Andrés Patiño. The exhibition is dedicated to the process of transformation of rural Spain, carried out between 1939 and 1971 by the National Colonisation Institute (INC), which planned the construction of new hydraulic infrastructures and more than three hundred villages that mobilised 60,000 families. To give an account of these actions, the exhibition presents more than 200 pieces and includes documents, drawings, plans, photographs and printed publications, as well as interviews with the settlers by the curators themselves and other researchers. The exhibition includes their research work on more than 45 colonisation villages that the curators have been visiting since 2016 in order to gain an in-depth understanding of the current state of the villages.
Villages of colonisation. Views of a landscape invented brings together research conducted by Ana Amado y Andrés Patiño on this context and produced by Museo ICO. The exhibition, produced by the Museo ICO, brings a renewed vision of the project to the FCAYC. In this third venue, the exhibition now seeks to delve deeper into the layers of the "lives lived", which, in this case, allude to the conditions under which the inhabitants arrived in these settlements and what transformations or survivals took place.
To this end, the previous work carried out by Ana Amado and Andrés Patiño has been joined by contributions from researchers such as José Manuel Cartagena, Pablo Rabasco and Fulgencio Fernández, in addition to the work of the FCAYC curatorial team. The materials collected in the exhibition hall introduce the tension between the triumphant "New State", brought about after the Civil War, and the "Reconstruction" of Spain, derived from the difficult economic situation of post-war Spain. In this context, the new economic infrastructure was supported by architecture and urban planning. The architects Alejandro de la Sota, José Luis Fernández del Amo, Jose Antonio Corrales, Antonio Fernández Alba, Fernando de Terán and Carlos Arniches, among others, were to shape this process, a model designed to lay the future foundations for production relations in the primary sector and the new organisation of wealth.
As part of the expansion of the exhibition, different guided tours are planned, which can be consulted on fcayc.org, as well as the presentation of the book Drowned memoriesof Jairo Marcos y Mª Ángeles Fernández for Editorial Pepitas, which will take place on 15 November at the FCAYC library.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Opening: 15 September 2024 at 12:00 hours
Dates: From 15 September to 17 November 2024.
Timetable: Tuesday to Sunday from 12:00 to 14:00 and from 16:00 to 19:00.
Commissioners: Ana Amado and Andrés Patiño
Organised by: FCAYC
Collaborators: This exhibition is part of the exhibition project PEOPLES OF COLONISATION. Looks to an invented landscape initially promoted by Fundación ICO/Museo ICO together with COAG Lugo and the Diputación de Huesca.