{"id":150,"date":"2025-11-13T19:13:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/memoryastransgenerationalcare\/?p=150"},"modified":"2025-12-02T10:25:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T10:25:43","slug":"new-exhibitions-nuevas-exposiciones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/memoryastransgenerationalcare\/2025\/11\/13\/new-exhibitions-nuevas-exposiciones\/","title":{"rendered":"New Exhibitions\/Nuevas Exposiciones"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Exhibitions\/Nuevas Exposiciones<\/h1>\n

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Our first exhibition, Mar de Sombras\/Sea of Shadows<\/strong>, took place at the Instituto Cervantes in Manchester in June 2024. It emerged from a fruitful collaboration between three associations dedicated to the recovery of historical memory \u2014 BCA\u20191937 UK-Euskadi<\/a>, Intxorta 1937 Kultur Elkartea<\/a> and Gernika Memoriaren Lekuko \u2014 alongside our research team, MTC (Memory as Transgenerational Care). The exhibition shared the experiences of the Basque children evacuated to Great Britain at the start of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), delving into the personal stories of these young refugees and exploring how their legacy has been passed down through generations. Through the contributions of artist Judith Mart\u00ednez Estrada and poet Alicia Garc\u00eda Bergua, the exhibition has served as an instrument of reparation that seeks to dignify and provide public recognition to the pain of the victims within the context of long-delayed democratic demands.<\/p>\n

Sea of Shadows<\/strong> was just the beginning of a long journey through the affective cartography of exile. Since then, we have continued working and traveling to expand the project, inviting others to contribute new testimonies and photographic material through numerous workshops and meetings. Their family albums have come to life in the work of Judith Mart\u00ednez Estrada: in the digital print and textile installations that make up The Unknown Path I <\/em>and II<\/em>, as well as in her Ephemeral Landscapes<\/em> and the hexagons of The Memory Hive<\/em>. The new exhibitions in the Basque Country borrow from Alicia Garc\u00eda Bergua’s poetic verses, “We are the eye of the needle\/ through which all the thread passed,” and are now titled: Orratz-Begia\/Gerrako Umeak-The Eye of the Needle\/Children of the War<\/strong>. We want to thread this invisible needle in order to create a tapestry in which the voices of the Basque diaspora of 1937 are interwoven, voices that find their echo in the experiences of so many refugees today, victims of war and violence.<\/p>\n

We will continue traveling. Our next stops in 2026 are Andoain, Ir\u00fan and Brussels.<\/p>\n

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En junio de 2024 celebramos nuestra primera exposici\u00f3n, Mar de Sombras\/Sea of Shadows, <\/strong><\/a>en el Instituto Cervantes de Manchester. \u00a0Fue el resultado de la fruct\u00edfera colaboraci\u00f3n entre las asociaciones BCA\u20191937 UK-Euskadi<\/a>, Intxorta 1937 Kultur Elkartea <\/a>y \u00a0Gernika Memoriaren Lekuko–dedicadas a la recuperaci\u00f3n de la memoria hist\u00f3rica–y nuestro equipo de investigaci\u00f3n, MTC (Memory as Transgenerational Care). La exposici\u00f3n ofreci\u00f3 una oportunidad para compartir las experiencias de las ni\u00f1as y ni\u00f1os vascos evacuados a Gran Breta\u00f1a al comienzo de la Guerra Civil (1936-1939). Nuestra intenci\u00f3n era ahondar en las historias personales de sus protagonistas y en los procesos de transmisi\u00f3n de ese legado a las siguientes generaciones. Gracias a las aportaciones de la artista Judith Mart\u00ednez Estrada y la poeta Alicia Garc\u00eda Bergua, la exposici\u00f3n ha servido como instrumento de reparaci\u00f3n que busca la dignificaci\u00f3n del dolor de las v\u00edctimas y su reconocimiento p\u00fablico en el marco de unas demandas democr\u00e1ticas largamente postergadas.<\/p>\n

Mar de sombras<\/strong> fue solo el comienzo de un largo viaje por la cartograf\u00eda afectiva del exilio. Hemos seguido trabajando, y viajando, para que otras personas se sumaran a este proyecto, aportando nuevos testimonios y material fotogr\u00e1fico a trav\u00e9s de numerosos talleres y encuentros. Sus \u00e1lbumes familiares han ido cobrando vida en la obra de Judith Mart\u00ednez Estrada: en las impresiones sobre velo que conforman The Unknown Path<\/em>, as\u00ed como en sus Ephemeral Landscapes<\/em> y en los hex\u00e1gonos de The Memory Hive<\/em>. Las nuevas exposiciones en el Pa\u00eds Vasco toman prestados los versos de Alicia Garc\u00eda Bergua, \u201cSomos el ojo de la aguja\/ por la que todo ese hilo fue pasando\u201d, para pasar a titularse ahora: Orratz-Begia\/Gerrako Umeak-El Ojo de la Aguja\/Ni\u00f1os y Ni\u00f1as de la Guerra.<\/strong> Queremos enhebrar esta aguja invisible con el fin de ir urdiendo un tapiz en el que queden entretejidas las voces de la diaspora vasca de 1937, voces que encuentran su eco en las experiencias de tantos refugiados y refugiadas hoy en d\u00eda, v\u00edctimas de la guerra y la violencia.<\/p>\n

Seguiremos viajando. Nuestras siguientes paradas en el 2026 son Andoain, Ir\u00fan y Bruselas.<\/p>\n

Photos by Instituto Cervantes (Manchester), Intxorta 1937 Kultur Elkartea , Bego\u00f1a Ariznabarreta and Judith Martinez Estrada.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Orratz-Begia\/Gerrako Umeak (Zumaia, Casa de Culturata Alondegia, February 2025)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Orratz-Begia\/Gerrako Umeak
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New Exhibitions\/Nuevas Exposiciones Our first exhibition, Mar de Sombras\/Sea of Shadows, took place at the Instituto Cervantes in Manchester in June 2024. It emerged from a fruitful collaboration between three associations dedicated to the recovery of historical memory \u2014 BCA\u20191937 UK-Euskadi, Intxorta 1937 Kultur Elkartea and Gernika Memoriaren Lekuko \u2014 alongside our research team, MTC … Continue reading “New Exhibitions\/Nuevas Exposiciones”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorised","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/memoryastransgenerationalcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/memoryastransgenerationalcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/memoryastransgenerationalcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/memoryastransgenerationalcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/memoryastransgenerationalcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/memoryastransgenerationalcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/memoryastransgenerationalcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/memoryastransgenerationalcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/memoryastransgenerationalcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/memoryastransgenerationalcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}