NALGURES. Film series
The exhibition Nalgures highlights the attention Narelle Jubelin (Sidney, Australia, 1960) gives to those realities forgotten by the linearity of official history. With this spirit, she embraces the subalternities of different contexts, her own and those of others, in order to revisit memories that allow us to define our attitudes towards these events.
Nalgures (2022), The Housing Question (Helen Grace and Narelle Jubelin, 2019) and The Third Space (2012-2013) are the three films that make up the exhibition Nalgures. The three are woven together by the artist as though they were fabrics, using different interconnected layers. One of these threads, which appears constantly, is tapping the potential of the community and housing. To do so, Narelle Jubelin explores individual memories that always transport us to collectiveness and community.
The inclusion of a series of photos by Anna Turbau within Nalgures accentuates Narelle Jubelin’s wish to choose images that bring us back to a fragmentary reality of the Galician context. Under the gaze of Turbau, an outsider like her, she seeks to explore a conflict that developed in the early years of the transition to democracy, when power continued to be in the hands of caciques, focusing on the popular protest against the construction of the AP-9 motorway, where concepts such as appropriation and usurpation are very much present.
This cycle of films and conversations seeks to explore those moments of conflict, drawing from concepts such as territory, memory and identity.
Teresa Moure, linguist and writer, will share her reading and conversation about the programmed films with the photographer Anna Turbau and the filmmaker Margarita Ledo. Both are authors who share context and experiences in the Galicia slowly moving towards the Transition.
PROGRAMME
28 SEPTEMBER. AUDITORIUM
- 7 p.m. Screening: Autopista, unha navallada á nosa Terra / Year: 1977
Director: Llorenç Soler (Valencia, 1935)
Spain / Documentary / Duration: 33 min
Synopsis: Documentary dedicated to one of the most virulent popular struggles of the time—the fight against the construction of the Atlantic motorway.
- 7.35 p.m. Discussion panel with the participation of Teresa Moure and Santiago Olmo.
29 SEPTEMBER. FIRST FLOOR EXHIBITION ROOM
- 7 p.m. Screening: Antisalmo / Year: 1976
Director: Llorenç Soler (Valencia, 1935)
Spain / Documentary / Duration: 17 min
Synopsis: Audiovisual poem based on a challenging literary poem the author wrote in Germany in 1968. From different perspectives and with different leading characters, this piece touches on the relationships between the authorities and the church. It includes a poem of her own that serves as the apex for a parallel montage of still images of a military parade and an Easter procession, a collage that certifies that desire to try out new formal solutions.
- 7.20 p.m. Discussion panel with the participation of Narelle Jubelin, Teresa Moure, Natalia Poncela and Anna Turbau.
30 SEPTEMBER. AUDITORIUM
- 7 p.m. Screening: Nación / Year: 2020
Director: Margarita Ledo (Castro de Rei, Lugo, 1951)
Spain / Documentary / Duration: 92 min
Synopsis: Through the energetic and charismatic women of the Pontesa ceramic factory (Galician sisters of the cigar-makers of Cádiz and Seville), Margarita Ledo builds the narrative of an inconclusive struggle.