VAT. Guillem de Castro, 118
Until recently, industrial heritage has not received the recognition it deserves, to perhaps have a negative charge associated with labor exploitation or pollution. Traditionally we have had more of an instinct for protection over churches or castles, alien to the working class, than on factories and industrial buildings, which we let die, or demolished directly. The paradigm has been changing for some time and industrial architecture is valued, but from a Romanized perspective. The artist Lorenzo Sandoval and the archaeologist Tono Vizcaíno, the ideologues-researchers of this exhibition, what they want is to rethink industrial heritage from the most immaterial, from the uses and experiences that have been generated around him at Alcora (with ceramic tradition), Port of Sagunto (steel industry), alcohol (textile-paper), the Vinalopó Valley (footwear) and Valencia. Industry/ Matrices, Trames i Sons is a "visitable archive" where you will find posters of raves and other events organized in factory settings, com the occupied Pepica la Pilona (old workshops of the Valencian Metallurgical Industry), music lists with factory popular songs, dj sessions with machinery sounds or industrial music (so associated with our mythical Bakalao Route), a union checker board with a train in each square, an LP by Ovid Montllor with industrial landscapes on cover, a photograph of the demolition of the Altos Hornos del Mediterráneo… AU
