On the afternoon of the 5th of June, the Museu de l’Art Prohibit hosted teachers, family members and colleagues of three students of the Graphic Design course of the European Institute of Design (Istituto Europeo Di Design) in an exhibition of their final thesis projects.
The event began with a private guided tour to an IED committee to our collection, led by the museum’s director, Rosa Rodrigo. After the tour, Casa Garriga Nogués opened its doors to receive more than 100 guests interested in the projects of Irene Fuente, Laura Valdez and Su Bin Shin. The young artists, of different nationalities, presented works focused on different forms of repression.
In Pathways of Resistance, Irene Fuente comments on the effects of the Spanish Civil War and especially the truculent Franquist dictatorial opposition to certain citizen groups in an extensive personal research process that gave way to an exhibition focused on those like Ramiro Fuente Ochoa (her grandfather) who fought for social equality at the time. The catalog, which includes the use, for example, of the anti-fascist Casagrande typography, covers the most important moments in the history of his predecessor in a format inspired by the newspapers of the time.
With Wasiy: Echoes of Inca symbols, Peruvian Laura Valdez presents her book of games based on Inca representations as a critique of the Spanish colonization that sought to extirpate native idolatries at the time. The word “Wasiy”, which means house in Quechua (Inca language), was used to symbolize the history of a place that was home to so many peoples and now embodies a publication with activities in levels that test the player’s knowledge with native symbols to instigate reflection on what is considered the Peruvian identity.
Finally, artist Su Bin Shin spoke about the censorship in Korea (before its division into two new countries) by the Japanese Empire. The colonization, which began in 1910 and lasted 35 years, served as a context for the development of four formats of materials inspired in the Japanese censorship that will be destined to students of history as a source of information of the period.
On the collaboration between the IED and the Museum, Fuente commented: “I am very grateful to the Museu de l’Art Prohibit for opening its doors and giving me the opportunity to show my work, to make visible the lives of those who are no longer with us, but who fought for a better future”.
Finally, the evening ended with a pleasant gathering on the terrace of Prohibit with all the participants present with food and drinks celebrating the successful presentation.
You can follow the entire conversation through the Museu de l’Art Prohibit’s Youtube channel: