PHOTOGRAPHIC AND IMMERSIVE EXHIBITION
From February 14 to March 2, 2024
Espai n-1, ground floor Biblioteca General UPV (edifici 4L). See map
Inauguration: Tuesday, February 14 at 6:30 p.m.
Curators: Fernando Canet and Adrián Mantilla
Last June was celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the arrival at the port of Valencia of the humanitarian rescue ship Aquarius. This ship, abandoned by Metges sense Fronteres and SOS Méditerranée, saved 629 people from dying in the central Mediterranean off the coast of Libya. That episode triggered an unprecedented crisis in the EU -an unresolved crisis- that dynamited the already weak EU migration policy. More than 600 journalists from 140 national and international media outlets covered the arrival of the boat in Valencia, which provoked an unprecedented wave of solidarity.
The exhibition “Desenfocades: històries de migració i refugi” deals with the migration to the city of Valencia not only through the memory of this event but also by means of an approach to how the life of the survivors has been during these more than five years. It does so through two forms of expression: the photographic medium and the emerging immersive medium. In relation to the first, the exhibition contains more than 50 photographs taken by a dozen photographers and photographers of national reference. Regarding the second, the visitor will be able to consume an example of immersive narrative entitled Five years laterusing state-of-the-art virtual reality ullers for this purpose. As a third approach to the subject, the visitor will receive as a gift the comic Why Spain?by Loopy Teller Studio and Aquarius Supervivents, illustrated by Carlos Vallésabout the reality of the survivors and their struggle to achieve a dignified life.
ROUND TABLE
Thursday 29 February at 6.30 p.m.
Lloc: Espai n-1, ground floor Biblioteca General UPV (edifici 4L).
In addition, in order to know first-hand their stories, a round table has been programmed as part of this exhibition, which will include the presence of: Moses Von Kallonpresident of the association Aquarius Supervivents;Boutaina El HadriDirector of the Escola de Ciutadania and General Secretary of the Moviment Força Migrant;Kassim Dambelepresident of the Nourdine association, andLorena Tortosamember of the executive board of the Unió de Periodistes Valencians. Moderator:Fernando CanetProfessor of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising at the UPV.
This exhibition is organized by the Aquarius Survivors Association and the Cultural Action Area of the Vice-Rectorate of Art, Science, Technology and Society of the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
Collaborate:
Metges sense Fronteres, Comissió Espanyola d’Ajuda al Refugiat (CEAR), CESÁfrica, Espai Obert El Marítim, Escola de Ciutadania, Moviment Força Migrant i Jovesólides.
Cooperation Area and Social Action Area of the UPV.
Funded by the research project: “Narratives audiovisuals prosocials immersives: mesurament del seu impacte en la societat i anàlisi de les seues característiques formals i tecnològiques” (CIAICO/2021/258, 2022-2044, Conselleria d’Innovació, Universitats, Ciència i Societat Digital de la Generalitat Valenciana).
