Arxiu ecologista
Arxiu ecologista. Memòria i cultura visual de l’ecologisme a València des dels anys 70 (“Ecological Archive. Memory and visual culture of environmentalism in Valencia since the 1970s”) was an exhibition curated by Alberto Berzosa and Jaime Vindel, which focused on the graphic manifestos of several ecologist activist groups around País Valencià. The exhibition took place at the Centre Cultural La Nau of the University of Valencia. The exhibition design as well as the campaign and printed media were created by Democràcia, typeset in HAL Timezone and HAL Timezone Mono (HAL Typefaces).
Description of the project by the designers of Democràcia:
Arxiu ecologista is an element of political agency. The historic activist Josep-Vicent Marqués was already clear about this in the late 1970s when he wrote his influential book Ecología y lucha de clases (1978). This exhibition builds on the insights of Marqués and the efforts of other ecological activists of the time, such as Alejandro de la Cueva and Ferran García, who initiated the Fons de Documentació del Medi Ambient de La Casa Verda in 1982, the most extensive environmental archive in the country, whose collections were deposited at the Universitat de València in 2010. Using this documentary repertoire as a starting point, the exhibition presents a journey through the audiovisual and material memory of the ecological movement in the Valencian region, with a threefold objective:
• To address the limited impact of ecologism.
• To re-read the recent history of social mobilizations in our country.
• To reflect on the proposals made in recent decades by institutions for reviewing archival technologies and the material and epistemological status of documents.
