Gypsies of Paper

It seems that Gypsies were born in the world only to be thieves: they are born to parents that are thieves, they are raised with thieves, study for thieves to eventually become commonplace thieves, and wins to steal and steal are acidentes that inseparable to them, until removed by death.

Miguel de Cervantes, The Gypsy.

The origin of the false synecdoches that identify gypsy with thief, we have to look around the fifteenth century, in the initial period of the historical moment that we call the Renaissance – which, in turn, is the cultural counterpart to the dawn of the capitalist system of exploitation and its conviction and prosecution of any activity or way of life that does not directly assess to a productive nature.

Even today all the studies point at the Gypsy community as the worst socially valued by the whole of Spanish society. The social rejection from which they suffer often stem from discriminatory practices that occur on a daily basis in various social and institutional areas.

Gypsies of Paper is a research and an artistic project that develops through publications, courses, workshops and exhibitions, and addresses the construction, through images of the role of the Gypsy community in the imaginary Western, European, and especially the Spanish and Andalusian, analyzing how the past is present today, how our moment updates bygone topics, through a network of interference which our perception is determined by images previously acquired and how our experiences are mediated / mediatized provides new images to this chain of relationships.