The exhibition "Exhuming Memory" constitutes a visual and documentary dialogue of profound human and historical impact. Within the framework of the Bogotá International Book Fair (Filbo) 2025, where Spain is the guest country, the Center for Memory, Peace and Reconciliation (CMPR) hosts this exhibition that interweaves two contexts of violence and silence: the mass graves of the Spanish Civil War, sensitively captured by the lens of photographer Francesc Torres, and the stark forensic documentation of a mass grave discovered in Bogotá.
Through the confrontation of these two geographically distant but spiritually close realities, the exhibition invites reflection on the persistence of violence, the need for memory, and the urgency of justice and reparation for the victims and their families. Torres's images, born from the exhumation process of a mass grave in Villamayor de los Montes (Burgos, Spain), are juxtaposed with the meticulous forensic records of Globe B of the Central Cemetery of Bogotá, where the construction of the CMPR itself unearthed a painful past.
