The starting point for the specific project carried out by Jorge Peris (Alzira, 1969) was his return in 2011 to Valencia, the city where he began his training as an artist. Specifically, he went back to El Palmar, which involved meeting memories, but also the landscape of the Albufera and all its surroundings.

IVAM looks in the mirror. Journalists, art critics and artists take the word.

Orientalism, by the Palestinian thinker Edward Said (1935-2003), was published in 1978. It revealed how the East was constructed as the counterpart of the West by the discipline that gave the book its title. Orientalism was based on a series of stereotypes that corresponded to the interests of political and economic powers.

Few phenomena feature more decisively in all the principal transformations that took place during Franco’s dictatorship. Yet the tourist boom in Spain tends to be trivialised. The hegemonic narrative reduces the imagery of tourists to the product that they consume (sun and sea), the government’s actions to a slogan (“Spain is different”) ...

Miquel Navarro (Mislata, 1945) was one of the group of artists who transformed sculpture in the late 1970s. His large installations in towns and cities are welcoming places but they also form part of the authority that dominates and controls.

The exhibition places the works of Julio González (Barcelona, 1876 - Paris, 1942) right at the centre of the aesthetic, political and social debate of his time, seeking to generate a discourse in which all such aspects come together using the artwork and documents that the IVAM has about him and other Avant-garde artists.

Ignacio Pinazo (Valencia, 1849 – Godella, 1916) opened up a new field for the treatment of naturalism, light and investigation.