OVERSEAS ROOM. Alzira, 9
In one of the last great exhibitions of La Nau, Let’s bring blacks home, we saw how colonial Europe set up "ethnic exhibitions" in the metropolises with kidnapped indigenous people so that visitors could see the ancestral ways of life of those poor uncivilized people who lacked culture and education (note the sarcasm). well, The trophy room, of the always interesting Eva Zapico, ens talks about Carl Hagenbeck, one of the first human traders who was in charge of supplying wild and indigenous animals to the human zoos that were so fashionable in the Western world. Hagenbeck and his wife are an upper-class Victorian couple experiencing an event, seemingly banal, which talks about the construction of State racism. One of the mechanisms to build it is alterity. By trapping human beings as animals, it was possible to identify them with something different, dangerous, contagious and threatening, not human, to justify the supremacy and colonizing power of the European white man over the invaded areas. They were objectified to be able to exploit them and make them profitable by diluting the burden of consciousness, thus laying the ideological basis of racism. Sala Ultramar premieres a piece about domestication as the basis of subjugation and destruction. AU
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