IP30.1 / 2023

Memory of Disappearance: Dwelling in Oblivion
Franco's 100 Pesetas Coin, 1966
Valencia History Museum

Transformed into a sheet, a Franco-era 100 pesetas coin (1966) questions the testimonial value of objects meant to fix memory. The piece highlights the fragility of material remembrance and advocates for an active memory, not monumental, but rather processual and collective. It proposes inventorying heritage as a critical gesture, assuming, as Georges Didi-Huberman suggests, that remembering is also learning to look at what disappears¹⁷.

17. Georges Didi-Huberman, Eclats, 2012.