Energy Aftermath

A group of people, who live in or descend from Barruelo de Santullán, have been meeting in different ways and thinking about what they can do, and they have found a series of wounds that they want to repair. Wounds in which memory is very present. A memory that helps them to think about the future.

Memory of the October Revolution of 1934, which split the people in two and which, nearly 90 years later, is still very much present in their conversations.
Memory of the mining families and their way of living and the way they used to build their houses, given the lack of space due to the orography of the locality.
Memory of women, whose stories have always been denied and which, despite the present historical moment, is still hidden under the epic stories of the miners and their work.
Memory of the places taken away by the speculation of the owners of the coal mining industry, who have turned the old industrial area into a closed and abandoned place, when it is communal land and streets where the neighbours used to live and walk, and which they want to recover at all costs.
Memory of the coal dump, very present in the local imaginary, which one day the authorities decided to eliminate without consulting them, just as they did with their struggles, their livelihoods and their illusions.

This group, mostly made up of women, want to think with an artist about how, through art, they can create a creation of restorative justice that will serve as an impulse to take the reins of the future and continue repairing this territory.