BARCELONA.- The project being presented by Alicia Framis (Barcelona, 1967) at the Centre d'Art Santa Monica has its origin in the perception that in a society with an apparently insatiable need to museify everything, in all likelihood the prison at Guantanamo will end up being converted into a museum. Alicia Framis invites us to take a more in-depth look at the question of whether it it legitimate to turn horror into a tourist attraction. After all, perhaps museums of this kind are a necessary evil, a way of ensuring that certain atrocities are not forgotten?

At the Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Alicia Framis will present her proposal for a Guantanamo Museum, which will include, among other things, a selection of exhibition objects and merchandising that reflect the museum’s theme and motto — ‘Things to forget’: chaise longue-electric chair, non-existent mailbox, poisonous shoes, etc. At the same time a sound room will recall the names of all the caged prisoners in Guantanamo.

As in so much of Framis’s work, this project features contributions by a number of special guests —notably writer Enrique Vila-Matas, musicians Blixa Bargeld and Tara Delong, and ilustrator Silvia Prada— and young designers of the future, by means of the special workshops that the artist is running in the Felicitat Duce Fashion School of (Barcelona), Can Xalant (Mataró) and the IED European Design Institute (Barcelona and Madrid).