Manuel Horrillo has visited for 7 years the fields where the clashes between the Spanish troops and the rebels of the protectorate took place during the so-called Rif War, a forgotten war of the Spanish collective imaginary.
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Horrillo's patient archaeology of landscape and testimony.
Editing
Juxtaposition of empty fields with survivor accounts.
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Manuel Horrillo
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The Rif War (1921-1926) remains so buried in Spanish consciousness that even the annual 'Día de las Fuerzas Armadas' rarely acknowledges the 13,000+ soldiers who died at Annual.
Horrillo specifically sought locations where NO monuments exist—arguing that absence of memory is itself evidence.
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