Paco Roca Astiberri · 2020
Photographs serve to fight against our limited and treacherous memory, and Paco Roca builds his latest comic on one of them, return to eden, edited in the same landscape format as the house. From a family photo of 1946, The Valencian makes a portrait with autobiographical overtones of post-war Valencia having fun on the beach of Nazareth, It moves by tram and smells like donuts. Antonia was a girl in those years, He was hungry and suffered in silence the impositions of Catholic dogma and Franco's repression., full of resentment and desire for revenge. Women (sinner), poor (by divine design) and from a red family (embarrassed). In four-color, Roca once again builds a traditional story anchored in memory full of narrative resources (the drawing coming out of the vignette), visual metaphors (that protective mother who ends up being left alone with no one to protect) and quantum poetry. Again, highway. AU
