{"id":1718,"date":"2023-12-21T15:57:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T15:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europeanmemories.net\/magazine\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2023-12-21T15:57:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T15:57:46","slug":"the-democratic-skylight-an-illuminating-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europeanmemories.net\/magazine\/the-democratic-skylight-an-illuminating-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Democratic Skylight: an illuminating exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ricard Conesa S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>
<\/a>Historian and project officer at the EUROM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt ends up being an exhibition where you don\u2019t really know if it is about history, art history or aesthetics. It does not come from any of these disciplines and it comes from all of them at the same time\u201d. This is how N\u00faria Ricart, a professor of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, described the exhibition El tragaluz democr\u00e1tico. Pol\u00edticas de vida y muerte en el Estado espa\u00f1ol (1868-1976)<\/em> (\u201cThe democratic skylight: policies of life and death in Spain (1868-1976))\u201d. This multidisciplinary vision is one of the great milestones of this original exhibition that could be seen in the new hall of La Arquer\u00eda Art Centre in Madrid from March to July 2023. But beyond this quality, it is perhaps its daring approach that has drawn the most attention of its visitors. As its curator, Germ\u00e1n Labrador, explained: \u201cWhat the exhibition seeks is a radical estrangement of our own history and a deconstruction of the myths that have articulated it on a national level, putting in the foreground struggles for life, for dignity, the demands of subjects and groups that had been denied in a modernity implemented according to the needs of the capitalist market and the nation-state\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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