UNTIL SUNDAY 1/2
THE ETHNO. Corona, 36
The surrounding towns use the word "pixavins" to refer disdainfully to the urbanites of some cities such as Valencia, Castellón or Gandia, capital of Safor, where - they say - they pee high and make dimples. For its part, the inhabitants of the biggest cities have derogatory words like "lauro" to refer to the inhabitants of the surrounding small towns. The village-city dichotomy has been accentuated since, in the middle of the 20th century, that great rural exodus took place that still continues to depopulate the towns of our counties. The subject jumped into the public conversation with the publication of Sergio del Molino's book Empty Spain (2016), which analyzed the situation of a good part of the interior regions of the Spanish State. In this sense, the new exhibition of L'Etno's own production walks, that uses Sun side as a metaphor for the social and economic transformations suffered by rural Valencian communities, for the territory and the people who inhabit it. The sample focuses on the identity and group features of traditional rural communities, In the social and economic attractiveness of the cities, in the public management of abandoned territories and in the arrival in rural communities of new settlers of urban origin and perspectives who have never heard of a rotovator. S.M.
