On November 16, in the courtyard of the Nouvel Building of the Reina Sofía Museum, a visual projection entitled latent peripheries, within the program of Robert Capa Festival was here. A festival that arises from Peironcely 10, the emblematic building immortalized by Robert Capa in 1936, and that this year expands its performance throughout the city of Madrid and that has the professors of the degree in BBAA of the URJC Miguel S.Moñita and Tomás Zarza as artistic directors together with Uría Fernández from the Anastasio de Gracia Foundation.

The one-hour show included the work “Vuelta a la Tierra” by Laura Fernández, Esther Guardamino and Andrés Pérez, who are studying for the Fine Arts Degree. The piece “Tides and exiles” by the RAMV collective made up of Vicente Alemany, Raquel Sardá, Miguel Sánchez and Antonio Vigo, professors at the URJC, was also screened. The screening featured live music by the artists Odín Kaban and Trinidad Jiménez.

As explained by the project's curators, Tomás Zarza and Miguel S.Moñita, «latent peripheries It is in an audiovisual reflection that questions the public from the present of Peironcely 10, as a mirror of the multiple exoduses that convulse today's society. Cities have grown without looking back, in waves of speculative greed that expel large pockets of the population, marginalizing them to underdevelopment. The capitalist productive machinery generates economic exiles who fight to get back on the fairground attraction from which they have been dropped. Migrants, who, attracted by the seductive lights of the cyberworld, demand their share of the cake that corresponds to them.»

Another activity has been framed within this same program in which more than of 70 Fine Arts students from our university, 750 schoolchildren from the Centro Cultural Palomeras Bajas, Amós Acero, García Morente, Palomeras Bajas and IES Palomeras schools and 10 teachers from the Rey Juan Carlos University who have launched a collective artistic expression that, under the title Shelter, humanity in transit, can be visited at the Railway Museum until December 1. 

The work of the young people has been channeled by the teachers, Miguel Sánchez-Moñita and Tomás Zarza Núñez, curators of the exhibition and directors of the festival. In the field of sculpture, professors Ana E. Balboa González, Emma García-Castellano García and Marta Linaza Iglesias have taken part. Likewise, the professors, Gema Pastor and Diana Fernández, have worked on a reflection on exiles from the point of view of gender, with a group of women from the Espacio Mujer Madrid (EMMA).

The visitor to this exhibition will find seven installations, entitled: mirror of shame, a large mantle built from thermal blankets, which reflects a reality that we do not want to see; Belongings, an installation made up of bundles that refer to the urgency and haste with which the exiles have to abandon their origin; Escape, which collects the symbolism of the screwed-on shoes used by immigrants to be able to jump the border fences; Tour, made up of hundreds of paper boats, made by school students, in which they have written stories based on their own family experiences around emigration; Refuge, an installation that gives the exhibition its name, in which he produces a disturbing game of projected shadows and suitcases; Dream city, a piece created with the work of the students of the schools; Y Gerda Taro's suitcase, a work created by a group of 20 women from photographs, joined by a great seam. 

The result of this original exhibition is the result of the collaboration of the Fundación de los Ferrocarriles, which has ceded the use of the space of the Development Hall of the Railway Museum for the development of this activity, promoted by the Anastasio de Gracia Foundation in collaboration with the URJC.