On World Art Day, discover the new exhibition at Católica "¿De qué casa eres?"

“It is precisely of trans-historical, cultural, social, and political relations that '¿De qué casa eres? Los niños de Rusia. Episodios de un cotidiano #4' is drawn”, says Luísa Santos, curator of the exhibition by Ana Pérez-Quiroga.

Made up “of drawings, objects, film, photographs, and publications that unfold in several parts”, the exhibition tells the story of the author's mother: “Ângela Petra, one of the 2,895 refugee children, Niños de Rusia, who during the Spanish Civil War, between 1936 and 1939, were sent to the Soviet Union without their families”, the curator explains.

“Unlike the refugee children in other countries, due to the political differences between Franco's regime and post-Stalinist Russia, the children who had been taken in by Russia, could not return to their country of origin at the end of the Civil War,” concludes Luísa Santos.

According to the curator “by showing and reflecting on the multiple realities of the Niños de Rusia, '¿De qué casa eres?' not only gives access to the bodies that lived them, but also to their embodied knowledge, histories, (post)-memories, and identities.”

Regarding the relationship with Católica, Luísa Santos stresses that “the University develops in the simultaneous immersion in theoretical and practical knowledge to emerge with new knowledge that, at its best, can design proposals for alternative futures.”

As such, the Universidade Católica will inaugurate the exhibition, on 18th April, at 6 pm, in the Fundação Amélia de Mello Gallery, in the headquarters of Católica, in Lisbon, in a ceremony open to the entire academic community.