IP30 / 2023

Memory of a Forgetting: Inhabiting Forgetfulness
Valencia History Museum

IP30 consists of three pieces. The first is a suspended memorial, lacking verticality, exploring constant instability, exposing itself as a memory of a forgetting that questions its testimonial value. In this way, it reveals an infinite range of meanings that can be revisited over time, restoring the event to its origin.
Based on the archive of the 500 women who died in the prisons of Valencia and were buried in the mass graves of the General Cemetery, this project abandons names to focus on the age, profession, and place of origin of the victims, generating a poetics of memory that contrasts with the official narratives "of the name." Through this gesture, it advocates for an alternative memory that questions monumental representation and emphasizes forgetfulness as a transformative force, thus highlighting the common.
The piece reflects on the dispute over memory, where "non-intervention presupposes that there is nothing relevant to highlight in those coordinates."¹⁶

16. Daniel Palacios González, On the Ways of Artistically Addressing the Memory of Disappearance, 2018.