Raza Odiada Nunca Muere - Neïla Czermak Ichti

Borrowed from the deathgrind metal band Brujeria, the title «Raza Odiada nunca muere» [The Hated Race Never Dies] sets the tone for Neïla Czermak Ichti’s first solo exhibition in a major public cultural institution.

Highly intimate and autofictional, the narrative reconstructed by the drawings, mural, animatronics and sculptures made by the artist follows the branches of her own family tree. There she brings forth guardian figures and cursed names, cherished faces and lost houses, transmitted values and inherited secrets.

Cities and countries bud there, as do origins and survivals, successions and transmissions. She counts aspirations for something better and misspellings in family names, drawn portraits and screen‑printed tombstones, ridiculed batons and cut‑out taunts, waving phones and unmistakable zeroes...

Between diary and crossed‑out notebook, the artist weaves a tale in which memory is reconsidered. What determines posterity? How are shame and pride born? Must we remember everything? Which lives deserve homage?

Together with her father, the painter Polô Czermak, and the living and the ghosts that surround them, the artist composes an epic at once intimate and collective that spills across the walls and school desks. The exhibition space is transformed into a haunted classroom, where lessons are learned through the ordeals endured by those who came before her.

At a time when children are hunted with rifles, in stories we thought were erased, hated races never die.