GENERAL VALERIANO WEYLER by Daniela Ortiz & Xose Quiroga
The Spanish nation constantly recognises as national pride personalities as Christopher Columbus, Francisco Pizarro, Diego de Almagro or Hernan Cortés; diverse streets, plazas and monuments recall the duties made by this men even though they are and were individuals that for other populations have another significance and provoke opposite feelings. The project proposes to praise the figure of general Valeriano Weyler, who until this moment doesn´t count with a generous recognition as the other individuals before mentioned. Only one street in Catalonia remembrance his personality. The project propounds making a public recognition of this Spanish General through the realisation of a bust with his figure that will be installed in the central space of La Capella during the months that the art show takes place. General Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau (Palma de Mallorca, September 17, 1838 - Madrid, October 20, 1930) was a noble, politician and serviceman, Marquis of Tenerife and Duke of Rubí who served as General Captain of Cuba during the Independence uprising. within his feats is the creation of the concentration camps, the way they operate and the strategy of re-concentration. Usually concentration camps are attributed to the German National Socialist`s generals when in fact concentrations camps have been a constant control strategy in modern era. Together with the recognition of Valeriano Weyler as the precursor of concentration camps, the project proposes the construction of a genealogy of diverse exception spaces, like concentration camps, extermination camps or immigrant detention centres. This genealogy will analyse the camp itself, the legal structure that aloud its operation, the architectural characteristics and the historical iteration in which different kind of camps collide because of legal and political confluences. The project pretends to understand the camp as the space that is set up when the state of exception in instituted in an specific situation like for example in the case of Cuba in the year 1896 or in Chile during the dictatorship as well as when this spaces begging to take part of the daily life of the state like in the case of immigrant detention centres. In this way the project aims to have an approach for reading the camps in their different shapes not like spaces isolated in history but as the maintenance along the time of an structure in which the state of exception turns to be concrete and stable permitting the constant suspension of the basic rights of the individual.
GENERAL VALERIANO WEYLER by Daniela Ortiz & Xose Quiroga
The Spanish nation constantly recognises as national pride personalities as Christopher Columbus, Francisco Pizarro, Diego de Almagro or Hernan Cortés; diverse streets, plazas and monuments recall the duties made by this men even though they are and were individuals that for other populations have another significance and provoke opposite feelings. The project proposes to praise the figure of general Valeriano Weyler, who until this moment doesn´t count with a generous recognition as the other individuals before mentioned. Only one street in Catalonia remembrance his personality. The project propounds making a public recognition of this Spanish General through the realisation of a bust with his figure that will be installed in the central space of La Capella during the months that the art show takes place. General Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau (Palma de Mallorca, September 17, 1838 - Madrid, October 20, 1930) was a noble, politician and serviceman, Marquis of Tenerife and Duke of Rubí who served as General Captain of Cuba during the Independence uprising. within his feats is the creation of the concentration camps, the way they operate and the strategy of re-concentration. Usually concentration camps are attributed to the German National Socialist`s generals when in fact concentrations camps have been a constant control strategy in modern era. Together with the recognition of Valeriano Weyler as the precursor of concentration camps, the project proposes the construction of a genealogy of diverse exception spaces, like concentration camps, extermination camps or immigrant detention centres. This genealogy will analyse the camp itself, the legal structure that aloud its operation, the architectural characteristics and the historical iteration in which different kind of camps collide because of legal and political confluences. The project pretends to understand the camp as the space that is set up when the state of exception in instituted in an specific situation like for example in the case of Cuba in the year 1896 or in Chile during the dictatorship as well as when this spaces begging to take part of the daily life of the state like in the case of immigrant detention centres. In this way the project aims to have an approach for reading the camps in their different shapes not like spaces isolated in history but as the maintenance along the time of an structure in which the state of exception turns to be concrete and stable permitting the constant suspension of the basic rights of the individual.