Project · 2010 · Seville
La Plaza de las Palomas
Creation, direction and curation
Dónde se van las palomas por la noche
This work aims to summarise the last eight decades of the history of the city of Seville through the photographic fragments linked to the emblematic space of the Plaza de América, in the Parque María Luisa. In it one can read the city and its history through the personal memories tied to this place, inseparable from Seville’s identity, which brings so many people together as a common reference.
One of the project’s key strands is based on participation, encouraging social impact and collective thought.
Drawing the strong essence of this square from their collective imagination, people freely shared their personal, mainly family, memories, sending their photographs to the project website. These served as raw material for my creation: painting, installation, video, theatre, photography, also with the collaboration of forty artists from Seville.
The result was a great collective creation with which participants and visitors felt strongly connected, emotionally and personally. The culmination of the project was an exhibition at the Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares de Sevilla, visited by almost 40,000 people, and an artistic intervention in the square itself.
The raw material
What people sent in
Everyone sent the project website the photo they had kept of the square. From each one the figure was cut out: what remains is the white gap of whoever was there and, behind it, the square as it still is.
Eight decades
La caja de memoria
One tin per decade. Inside, the photos people left: first communions, couples, little girls feeding the pigeons. The same square, eighty years in a row.
Those who were there
The photo in their hands
And behind each photograph, someone who is still here and holds it.
The intervention
Back to the square
The cut-out figures returned to the park life-size, set in the exact spot where the original photo was taken. Passers-by came across them without knowing what it was all about.
What came out of it
The works
Credits
- Creation and curation
- Rinat Izhak
- Paintings and photography
- Rinat Izhak
- Exhibition
- Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares de Sevilla Almost 40,000 visitors
- Intervention
- Plaza de América, Parque María Luisa, Seville
- Guest artists
- Ana Mª Jarana Ana Quesada Ana S. Valderrábano Antonio Melo Montero Antonio Sosa Baobab Carlos Salgado Carmen Muñoyerro Muñiz Concha Ybarra Cristina Pérez de Villar David López Panea Dolores Fernández Cabello Dolores Gómez Elena Arroyo Durán Federico Guzmán Felipe Ortega Regalado Joaquín Delgado José Manuel Pérez Tapias Juan Fernández Lacomba Lalo de la Paz Layla Halcón Lola Montero Magdalena Bachiller Manolo Cuervo Manuel Losada Manuela Bascón Marcos Fernández María Ortega Estepa Marta Viguera Ming Yi Chon Óscar Ortiz Marzo Pablo Grosso Paco Lara Pepa Rubio Pedro Simón Pepe López Reyes de la Lastra Ricardo Castillo Rocío Arregui
- Staging of the images
- Dos Lunas Teatro
- Text adaptation
- Bernardo Carrascal Cristina Pérez de Villar
- Sculptures for «La niña de la fuente»
- Juan Ramón Lafita
- Making of the characters
- Javier Carranco Luque
- Advisers
- Juan F. Lacomba Nico Salas Gema Otero Israel Romero Romero
- Image archive
- Toñi González Nicolás Salas
- Digitisation and processing
- Rinat Izhak Paco Alorda Gema Otero Julián Tobías Nico Salas
- Project website
- Michel Suárez Adam Newby Israel Romero Romero
- Museum team
- Montse Barragán Jané María Venegar Ortiz Javier Corro Olmo Manuel Morán Trujillo Manuel Lucena López José María Doménech Vázquez
- Citizen participation
- José María Torres Bea Sean Carmen Sobrino Ruiz Casimiro Sáenz de Casas Sobrino Cecilia Fernández Olmo Valme Feria Ruiz-Calderón Ana María Elisa Ruiz-Calderón Martín Ana María Martín Tejada Fernando Rodríguez-Izquierdo Gávala Guillermo Rodríguez-Izquierdo Gallardo Lola Romero Almansa Israel Romero Romero Sebastián Romero Pineda Lola Pineda López Reyes del Pozo García José Luis del Pozo Carrasco María Luisa Carrasco Escribano Mª Luisa Escribano Aguilera Domingo Carrasco Garach Carmen Jesús Gil María del Carmen Jesús Pareja Antonia Pareja Collantes Quique Aracil Arregui Rocío Arregui Pradas Miguel Arregui Rangel
- Sponsors
- Fundación Tres Culturas Junta de Andalucía · Consejería de Cultura Giralda S.L. Asociación Amigos del Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares de Sevilla
- In collaboration with
- Signos de Mediodía Arte Contemporáneo