IP25 / 2017

Eating the Mosquito
Barcelona Pensa. CCCB, MACBA

For decades, Europe has been uneasy, asking who is the "barbarian" and who the "civilized." Since the conquest of America, Central European society has used the image of the savage to justify its supposed (fictional) superiority. Just open the history drawer and remember that in the 16th century, what came from the "New World" was used to demonize and subjugate an entire continent with the story of the "cannibal." Although they were unaware that, specifically in Atapuerca (in the Gran Dolina cave), remains have already been found showing that here, too, gastronomic cannibalism was practiced over 800,000 years ago. Eating the mosquito.