JEŽIK AND COSTA EXPLORE MEMORY AND EXILE IN A GROUP EXHIBITION

The Miguel Hernández University presents Vientos del pueblo. Voices of Exile and Resistance, offering a critical approach to violence and systems of repression linked—both at a social level and within the collective imagination—to contemporary policies, colonial legacies, and diverse forms of exile and their consequences. Curated by Mónica Sotos, the exhibition takes as its point of reference the poem Vientos del pueblo by Miguel Hernández, fostering a reflection on memory across different geographies, migratory processes, and their physical and conceptual relationship with broader geopolitical contexts.

The Argentine artists Ježik (Córdoba, Argentina, 1961) and Costa (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1973) are part of a wider group that also includes Eugenio Merino (Madrid, Spain, 1975), Gloria Oyarzábal (London, United Kingdom, 1971), Ricardo Calero (Villanueva del Arzobispo, Spain, 1955), Óscar Seco (Madrid, Spain, 1964), Pierre Valls (Paris, France, 1954), and María Rosa Aránega (Almería, Spain, 1995). Their practices converge around shared analytical axes such as the violation of human dignity, conflict, borders, and bodily violence, expressed through media including photography, video, installation, drawing, and archival formats.

Within this framework, Vientos del pueblo. Voices of Exile and Resistance can be understood as a discursive device that examines the instrumentalization of borders in the control and production of subjectivities. Taken as a whole, the selected works form a polyphonic discourse that challenges dominant power narratives and, through representational strategies, proposes alternative readings aimed at critically addressing processes related to displacement, violence, and exclusion.

Vientos del pueblo. Voices of Exile and Resistance can be visited until July 4 at the La Valona – Center for Contemporary Culture (Avda. de la Universidad, Elche).