Through a sample documentary This exhibition presents an untold story: the relationship between Catalonia and Ecuador, where Catalan and Ecuadorian destinations, under a historical perspective (1880-1940), stories are emerging in small, almost "intimate." The migration of recent years will interpreted by an art-performance and video, made by Ecuadorian artists and Maria Rosa Amelia Poveda Jijón. Finally, the conceptual and documentary content is summarized in a catalog that will be delivered on opening day and the historians who participated Matteo Manfredi, Maria Elena Porras, Malena and Natalia Bedoya Esvertit.
For this event, participated and Catalan Ecuadorian institutions that have supported this initiative since its inception, as has been the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Programme of the Bicentennial of Independence, the Vice President of the Generalitat, the permanent secretariat to the migrations, the Cultural Heritage Department of the Generalitat, the National Secretariat for Migrants in Ecuador, among others, for which the Consulate has offered its appreciation.
Faces of migration, Ecuadoreans in Catalonia and the Catalans in Ecuador is the result of a project undertaken by the Consulate General Ecuador in Barcelona for the recovery of your files, and reporting of a story so far not explored: the relationship between Catalonia and Ecuador, where migration processes are the main focus.
This exhibition took as its starting point the link between memory and identity, against the complex reality of contemporary mass transit in human beings beyond their national borders. Under a historical perspective , has designed a conceptual reading synchronously with four questions that enable visitors to appropriate the contents that refer to a particular problem, whether economic, social, immigration, cultural and political intervention for the recovery of the past. From this concept, we present the following areas:
Barcelona Guayaquil, ports and destinations in which links the dynamics of world trade and strengthening of post-industrial capitalism as a system in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with two meeting places and social mobility: Barcelona Guayaquil. It highlights the Ecuadorian presence in Expo Barcelona, \u200b\u200b1888, through the inclusion of Ecuadorian products many Catalans managed by residents in the most important port in Ecuador at the time, who in turn due under the second boom cocoa "Ecuadorian able to undertake thriving business and shopping in this city of Buenos Aires.
The footprint of the migrant, part of a reflection on the intertwining of the concepts of memory and identity, whose most visible tool in the consular file documentary collection is the book I Ecuadorian Record 1903 -1953 , a key part that makes visible the Ecuadorian and Catalan itinerary along history. Through a proposed museum -A-way installation is hoped that the visitor can revive the past through documents, photographs and different identity records therein.
cultural exchanges time, the purpose of fundamental is to present in a particular historical moment-the first half of the twentieth century the various contributions to certain people linked to the field of arts and education conducted in both Ecuador and in Catalonia.
file, source memory is a space that promotes the enhancement of consular file as a tool for the recovery of a common past and the importance of memory in contemporary democratic construction. This space will show the process that demands a technical and professional intervention, as well as possibilities for further research on this documentary heritage.
