«Why do I know so little about my grandmother’s past?»

El Pacto del Olvido is a work about the intergenerational transmission of memory of the Francoist dictatorship. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Franco’s death, which makes the work even more relevant in the current historical context, especially with the growing spread of authoritarian and extremist rhetoric all across the world.

In order to analyse the political violence in Spain’s recent history, El Pacto del Olvido unravels the habits of domestic suppression on which oblivion has been woven generation after generation.
Through autofiction and historical analysis this memory exercise outlines the contours of collective silence. The audience is invited to wander in between the memory gaps through which repressed pain has been quietly seeping over decades. With the desire of intimately mitigating the trauma provoked by an official discourse that speaks of winners and losers as collectives without personal depth, the artist explores the varying generational conducts with respect to institutionalised amnesia, as embodied in his close relatives.