UNTIL SUNDAY 5/5
THE ETHNO. Corona, 36
The most banal objects have the ability to become privileged containers of an important part of a person's life trajectory or of the joint history of a town with its traditions and particularities. See here Patricia Campos' aviation pilot helmet from the 1990s, the first female pilot of the Spanish Armed Forces, or the objects full of stinking mud from a Carcaixentina optic that was washed away by the swamp of 1982. They are some of everyday objects that Valencians who have gone through the program keep at home Treasures with history d’At Punt to show them and explain their history and their sentimental and heritage value. In the Etno, they are also the ones who explain with their words why the objects they treasure must be appreciated. Some are unattractive but relevant for their ability to tell us as a people, such as Florencio Pla's birth certificate and death certificate, The Shepherdess, who stopped being Teresa to join a group of maquis from La Sénia. An incredible story told to us with mastery by the theater company from Castellón La Ravalera to the work Instructions not to be afraid if La Pastora comes. A suitcase full of blacksmith tools tells us the birth of the toy industry in Ibi and a tablet that served as a support for freezing chocolate tiles symbolizes the foundation of the company Chocolates Valor.
The first poster of L'Aplec dels Ports, a mask that was part of the work Favara Visanteta directed by Albert Boadella 1985, the design of Pepe Gimeno's famous palm tree, now a symbol of Valencianness, Enric Valor's hat and club, Amatller chocolate trading cards drawn by Segrelles, a ceramic mosaic Nolla from a palace in Malaga, the sweet girl who lives with Vicent Torrent since she founded Al Tall, a shirt of the football player Puchades and the chichonera of the cyclist Diego Cháfer are part of this collection of objects collected at L'Etno. Not all are covered in glamour, you will find bottles of Orangina that come from the laboratories of Dr. Wheat (also inventor of the Trinaranjus, drink that gave rise to orange surpluses) or a still to produce the typical liquor of Elche known as Cantueso, as an example of industrial history of the Valencian Country, a shovel and a crawler to assemble and thresh the rice that are part of our agricultural history, a dwarf head by Felipe González from the Cocentaina festivities representing our folklore, the saxophone of one of the musicians who kept the Danses de Guaduassuar alive in the sixties and seventies to highlight the importance of musicians in the territory, typical Valencian cures for the horses that paraded in the Volta en Carro that began to be celebrated in the Marina Alta in 1987 as an example of deep-rooted traditions and, collecting magico-religious folk medicine, a handkerchief to break the Almoines enfitt that is between eighty and one hundred years old. To cure indigestion you need a handkerchief that measures the level of enfit and know the prayer that can only be transmitted orally on Thursday or Good Friday. You know it? S.M.
