Quebrada Grid and Quebrados Chart

Retícula Quebrada and Carta de Quebrados are the two parts of the synchronous project that Chema López presents at the Rosa Santos gallery at
Madrid and Valencia.

Broken Grid could refer to a broken print, to a fracture in the drawing or in the cell-like divisions that characterise the certificates shown in this project. However, if we go a little deeper, it is possible to understand this "broken" as the social and vital reality of the women represented. Women and families who were traversed by migration, conflict, border, travel and prejudice, and whose lives are tersely summarised in identity documents, residence permits and other official writings with purely descriptive classifications.

Quebrados Charter: In the 19th century in France, the police record1 gave rise to what we know today as the identity card. A document with a reticular structure, which is associated with a person, includes his or her photograph and includes neutral and objective descriptions of his or her origin, age, physical appearance and personal situation, together with other characteristics that mutate with time.
time. But the intention to use these cards to classify and control, firstly prisoners and delinquents, then trade unionists, anarchists and women, and finally the entire population, is evident from the very beginning. In Carta de Quebrados, Chema López builds his work around the history of this and other certificates that appear in various territories and historical moments, some are membership cards used in times of war, and others arise with the aim of identifying, cataloguing and segregating different social groups.