IP31 The Power of Memory is the Ability to Love

Memorial at the Llíria
Cemetery and Route from the Town Hall to the Cemetery

One of the central aspects of this project has been the popular, scientific, and symbolic approach to the weeds growing along the path where prisoners were transported before being executed, as an image of the invisible presences of the victims. Based on these plants, a herbarium has been created that serves as the symbolic foundation for the ceramic memorial.
A conceptual itinerary has also been designed to accompany the memorial. This route, activated by a QR code at each totem, allows visitors to explore testimonies and reflections on various key concepts linked to historical memory: Memory, Testimony, Narrative/History, Re-victimization, Displacement, Commemoration, Affected Listening, Traces/Remains, Farewell/Mourning/Ritual, and Healing/Welcoming.
With students from IES Camp de Turia, we have focused on listening and transforming this historical narrative into a sensory and processual experience, expanded by personal experience and integrated under the umbrella of History. Collecting the herbarium, experiencing the void, and materializing it in the public space has helped us perceive a hidden passage, probably the last one experienced by those executed and buried in the mass graves of the Llíria cemetery.