Stanbrook, 1939

The Republican exile to the North of Africa

Centre Cultural La Nau (Universitat de València). September 2014

The exhibition narrates the seaward exodus of the Republicans who had retreated to Alicante at the end of the Civil War, towards an African exile.

The art exhibit is divided into two distinct themes that occupy two large spaces in the room. The first is centred on the sea, as a means of salvation as well as representing an uncertain future or horizon, with blues, the Alicante port and the Stanbrook as the protagonists; the second theme being the desert, as an element of shelter and imprisonment, with the imagery of the labour camps and the stories of the refugees that form part of them. Two large murals define these themes, composed of texts, images and pieces of each section. The graphic novel “The Random Furrows”, by Paco Roca, serves as a script of what happened.

The presence of two sets, one being a still life of the construction of the Trans-Saharan railway, and another made up of suitcases from the era as the background of a bust of the Republic, bring a sense of emotion to the display.

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