A journey between two worlds, a change, is a displacement between two given places. Along the way, eternal at times, numerous spaces and places are passed through, left in the memory as nameless memories, as futile spaces outside of all documentation and institutionality, which name the world.
This is the starting point of the Al’Akhawat collective, made by 5 artists from the North African Diaspora in the Spanish State. Along María Gómez (History and Art Theory Department) and Gonzalo Fernández (Arabic and Islamic Studies Department), they have crafted a new exposition, under the name Y el oeste no existía (And the West did not exist).
This exposition, open for visits between February 23rd and April 10th, will invite its guests to reflect on the experiences lived by the members of this group, revolving around their memories of their journeys and families, and the overlapping geographies they belong to. With a serious, provocative tone, with crafted pieces that evoke distant memories, the exposition is joined by numerous elements that intertwine memory and imagination, with an speculative fiction of what Al’Akhawat calls “a genealogy of movement outside the map”.
The exposition will take place in the Exposition Hall at Plaza Mayor (UAM). For more information, we encourage you to check this link. The MIRCo center encourages you to go see it and to be part in this reflection, that we see as suggesting and necessary.
