The answer lies in art: of dreams and material conditions.

The article recounts the genesis of Concomitentes, a non-profit cultural organisation operating at the state level that invites groups from civil society to become promoters, “comitentes”, of a work of art. It then describes the The methodology he works with was formulated in the 1990s by the artist François Hers, who sought a formula for reconnecting contemporary art with society. He then details the four current Concomitentes projects in the Canary Islands, Catalonia, Galicia and Madrid.. Taking as an example the Galicia project, which works on the cultural and architectural legacy of the García Naveira brothers, historical patrons of Betanzos, the article insists on the importance of developing strategies that can generate a participatory process around a historical heritage in order to enunciate a collective will.

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