“Article 35. When the government violates the rights of the people,
insurrection is for the people and for each portion of the people
the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.”
Declaration of the Rights of the Man and Citizen of 1793.
Right of Revolution
Series of 5 ink photomontages: photographs and graphite drawings
40 x 50 cm. each
2016
This project takes as reference the historical engravings from the end of the 18th century that represent the public executions of aristocrats and nobles during the French Revolution. These drawings are appropriations of these scenes in the guillotine, relocated on current photographs of some representative Madrid locations. These chosen sites symbolize the powers of the Spanish State, both official and hidden: the legislative and executive power, the judicial power, the monarchy, and the Catholic Church. In fifth place is the Plaza Mayor, for being the stage where the Spanish Inquisition celebrated for centuries its autos de fe.
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