Prompted by concerns raised after reading the novel Mala gente que camina (Bad People Who Walk) by Benjam\u00edn Prado, and motivated by the brutality of Franco’s repression, in 2010 I began a project on Francoist archaeology with the aim of photographing the residences of the most prominent figures in the leadership of the various Francoist governments.<\/p>\n
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This objective changed slightly when I learned of the 2008 legal proceedings in which Judge Garz\u00f3n prosecuted 35 senior officials from the first phase of Franco’s government for crimes against humanity. During these proceedings, the magistrate was forced to request their death certificates in order to declare their responsibilities extinguished. Obtaining copies of these certificates, which contain the last official address of the deceased, allowed me to start the project and, at the same time, limit it to those considered to be the main architects of the repression, represented by figures such as Francisco Franco, Nicol\u00e1s Franco, Serrano S\u00fa\u00f1er, Juan Vig\u00f3n, Queipo de Llano and Tom\u00e1s Dom\u00ednguez Ar\u00e9valo.<\/p>\n
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The location, identification, and registration of houses throughout Spain led me to undertake a project that, through the visible face of the residences of some of the darkest figures of the Civil War and the Dictatorship, symbolically elemental as monuments of self-representation, offers us an unprecedented image of Francoism that takes into account the historical, cultural, and aesthetic imagination of the Francoist elites, their privileges and the impunity they have enjoyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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