Monday, March 7, 2016

Exhibition remembers victims of 2004 bombings in Madrid – Terra.com

The exhibition “Once March” recalls through photography, video, installation and memories of the victims of the terrorist attacks against the railway network of the capital on 11 March 2004.

the National Anthropology Museum exhibits until next May 22 sample photographer Eduardo Nave, complete with posters and objects that were left in train stations where passing trains attacked from.

In the events of March 11, 2004 killed 192 people and more than two thousand injured, and the opening of the exhibition by the Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz, brand the start of several events for the 12th anniversary of the tragedy.

In his message, the minister stressed the importance of remembering these events, to remember the victims who are instrumental in the fight against terrorism, especially now that it is one of the world’s biggest challenges.

she stressed that the role of victims is a projection that has prompted Spain since last year, as a nonpermanent member of the United Nations Security Council.

He remembered the victims of the post-2004 attacks, and said the danger against terrorism goes beyond the borders of countries.

Eduardo Nave presented in this exhibition photographs and videos captured along different paths trains attacked to end in the central Atocha station, where they were going and where it was committed one of the attacks.

The artist climbed the same time that the attacks were committed during many recent years, and some of the images were taken with eyes closed thinking of the victims.

The room of the museum also displays posters with words of feelings and desires that led to these attacks, the posters stuck on the train, photographs of how those moments were lived, mainly solidarity.

Meanwhile, the facade of the museum is decorated with letters, the initials of the 192 victims, who are receiving visitors and fire.

The exhibition is organized by the Memorial of the Victims of Terrorism Foundation Center, the Victims of Terrorism Foundation and the National Museum of Anthropology, the collaboration of the M11 Association Affected by Terrorism, Help Association 11M, Renfe and Historical Railway Archive Railroad Museum.

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