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Greetings from the USA - Saludos desde España (julio 2023) es una publicación de Cristina Arribas que trata sobre la penetración de la modernidad americana como modelo de «modernidad española». Designed by Filiep Tacq and with an exchange of letters with Juan José Lahuerta, this visual essay presents the impudence and self-confidence with which Spain copies what is American from the prism of postcards. La visión conjunta de una tarjeta postal americana del Arco Gateway de Saint Louis (Misuri) junto a una española del arco de acceso a Torreblanca del Sol, en Fuengirola, abrió a su autora un camino (una autopista) sin retorno, y aquí se muestra una parte.

Last March 2022, Lola Lasurt (Barcelona, ​​1983) presented Ensayo para Deep Song (Centro Federico García Lorca, Granada), an exhibition project in which the Catalan artist is based on the choreography Deep Song (1937) by the dancer Martha Graham , created in response to the still and moving images reaching North American audiences about the Spanish Civil War. Lasurt translates Graham's performative gesture into a pictorial act, without forgetting the relationship with the work of Federico García Lorca that inspired her title: Poema del cante jondo (1931). This bilingual publication (Spanish and English) reinforces Lasurt's investigative work in the contemporaneity of a historical event and its memory.

The artist's book Timelines (April, 2014) by Lia Perjovschi shows a timeline developed through the juxtaposition of images and text that forms the subjective history of the world from the Lythic Age to the present day. In addition, a series of notes and keywords written by the artist narrate these events, revealing her particular vision of the world...