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" The Exile of 39 in comics. Vignettes on the border"

The Universitat Politècnica de València opened the exhibition "The Exile of 39 in Comics. Vignettes on the Border" on Friday 8th March in room n-1 of the Central Library of the Vera Campus, with the intervention of the curators, Josep-Vicent Garcia Raffi and Francisco Collado Cerveró, and the Vice-Rector for Culture, Salomé Cuesta. The exhibition can be visited until 16th April.

History through comics

The exhibition "The Exile of 39 in Comics. Vignettes on the border" presents different perspectives on the same traumatic story - silenced for decades - of the forced departure of hundreds of thousands of people from their country.

Graphic works by prominent artists such as Paco Roca, Manel Granell, Jordi Peidro and Ana Penyas coexist with original objects and drawings, some of them unpublished, and become powerful tools for conveying the stories of uprooting experienced after the Civil War.

The exhibition brings together works created from the 1970s onwards, in English, Catalan, Basque and French, and is divided into four sections: The Retreat; Concentration Camps; Overseas Exile and The Resistance, as well as offering a space for reading.

A reality that repeats itself

The curators, Josep-Vicent Garcia Raffi and Francisco Collado Cerveró, point out that in recent years there has been an increase in the number of comics and graphic novels about exile on both sides of the border, making it easier for the silenced history to reach younger people. The past they describe also allows us to connect with the reality of the hundreds of thousands of people who continue to flee their countries today to escape conflict and reprisals.

The exhibition "The exile of 39 in comics. Vignettes on the border" was inaugurated at the Museu Memorial de l'Exili de la Jonquera (Mume) and is intended to be itinerant. Its artistic content and composition are the result of the research carried out by the two curators, as reflected in the article they co-authored: "El còmic i l'exili del 1939: des de la retirada fins a la diàspora i la resistència armada" (Comics and the exile of 1939: from the retreat to the diaspora and armed resistance).