Memorias Enteradas proposes an on-site audiovisual piece as a primery research project, created at the coordinates of the mass grave located in the Catalan Pyrenees as an analysis of the site, its landscape.This short essay critiques the lack of information available about mass graves in Spain and their specific locations.
Memorias Enteradas is a primery research project that reconstructs the route of the Republican exile during La Retirada of 1939 in Spain. Through cartographic analysis at the Cartoteca de Cataluña and the collection of testimonies from exiles victims in the historical archives of Barcelona, it has been possible to trace a fragment of the path followed by those who fled Francoism from Barcelona crossing the Pyrenees.
At the end of this journey, after examining various maps of mass graves across Spanish territory, a mass grave near the path and the border has been identified, where around 100 people were executed and buried. Like many other mass graves in Spain, this one has subtle signage. Many have been forgotten, leaving no trace, which hinders the recognition and remembrance the victims buried there.
Memorias Enteradas is a primery research project that reconstructs the route of the Republican exile during La Retirada of 1939 in Spain. Through cartographic analysis at the Cartoteca de Cataluña and the collection of testimonies from exiles victims in the historical archives of Barcelona, it has been possible to trace a fragment of the path followed by those who fled Francoism from Barcelona crossing the Pyrenees.
At the end of this journey, after examining various maps of mass graves across Spanish territory, a mass grave near the path and the border has been identified, where around 100 people were executed and buried. Like many other mass graves in Spain, this one has subtle signage. Many have been forgotten, leaving no trace, which hinders the recognition and remembrance the victims buried there.