JAVIER MAZZEO

THE EXILE
THE EXILE IS BANISHMENT.
HAVE TO LEAVE THE LAND WHERE ONE HAS ITS ROOTS, IS TO LEAVE ITS LAND, ITS AFFECTIONS, IS TO LEAVE BELOVED PERSONS AND DEAR PLACES.
THE EXILE IS NOT ONLY TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY OF ONE, ITS TO BE SEEN OBLIGED AGAINST ITS DESIRE TO ABANDON THE PLACE THAT ONE CHOSE TO LIVE, TO UNFOLD TOURS WINGS.
IT IS TO BE SEEN OBLIGED BY POLITICAL REASONS OR BY NOT COINCIDE WITH THE THOUGHT OF THE ONES THAT GOVERN, TO LEAVE THE PLACE WHERE ONE I DREAM TO BUILD A FUTURE.
IT IS NOT TO SEE THE SKY, THE COLORS, THE FRAGRANCES, THE FLAVORS THAT ONE CHOSE DAY BY DAY.
IT IS TO LEAVE THE KNOWN SHADOWS, THE THINGS THAT ONE HATES, NOT TO BE ABLE TO PROTEST AGAINST EVERYTHING THAT ONE BELIEVES THAT IT SHOULD CHANGE.
PASS NOT ALL DAYS BY THE SAME STREET WHEN RAINS, WHEN THERE IS SUN, AT NIGHT, WHEN THE LEAVES OF THE TREES FALL. AND ESSENTIALLY IS TO ABANDON ALL, WHAT CONTINUES PASSING, WHILE ONE IS NOT THERE.
THE EXILE IS NOT TO BE ABLE TO RETURN.

I AM AN ARTIST, I FEEL COMPROMISED TO RESPOND SINCE THE ART TO ALL THE FORMS OF INJUSTICE, WRONG, VIOLENCE AND PAIN AL THAT IS SEEN SUBMITTED THE HUMAN BEING IN THE EXILE.
COUNTING AND SHOWING TO THE OTHERS MY OWN VISION OF THE EXILE.
MY VISION. UNIQUE AND PERSONAL.
THAT VISION UNIQUE, BUT AT THE SAME TIME EQUAL THAT TO THE VISION OF THE OTHERS.
I, AS MANY ARGENTINES WE LIVE TOGETHER WITH EXILED, OR WE ARE CHILDREN OF EXILED OR REFUGEE EUROPEANS. IS PART OF OUR IDENTITY.
MY GRANDFATHERS, MY MOTHER, MY UNCLES, THEY HAD TO LEAVE YOURS PLACES, YOURS COUNTRIES, PURSECUED IN THE TIMES THAT IN SPAIN THE GENERAL FRANCO GOVERNED AND DID NOT TOLERATE THE DIVERSITY OF THOUGHT. AN EPOCA WHERE THE VIOLENCE AND THE
SISTEMATIC ELIMINATION OF THE ONES THAT WERE NOT ACCORDING TO IMPOSED THOUGHT SINCE THE GOVERNMENT.
SO, MY FAMILY ARRIVED AT ARGENTINA, TO PLANT ITS TREES, AND ITS ROOTS IN THIS PLACE.
THOUGH MY EDUCATION WAS MARKED BY THIS FACT, MY MOTHER KNEW NOT TO EDUCATE ME IN THE MEMORY OF IT LOST, BUT IN THE FIND OF THE GOOD THING FOUND.
BUT WITHOUT FORGETTING, THEREFORE THE OVERSIGHT ALSO IS ONE OF THE PARTS THAT FORM THE MEMORY. AND THE MEMORY WALKS FROM THE MEMORIES TO THE FORGETFULNESS, AND THE FORGETFULNESS TO THE REMEMBERS.
A NATION CONSTITUTES IT ALL THE HABITANTS OF THIS COUNTRY. THE BORNS IN THAT COUNTRY, THE ONES THAT CHOSE TO LIVE IN THAT COUNTRY AND THE ONES THAT IT
DID NOT CHOOSE BUT BY DIVERSE REASONS LIVE IN THAT COUNTRY.
ALL THEY GOVERNED BY THE SAME LAWS, WITH THE SAME RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS.
ALL THE FORMS TO THINK LIVE TOGETHER. AND TO UNDERSTAND EACH FORM OF THOUGHT US MEET TO THE OTHERS, WHEN WE ARE FAR AWAY, OR WE LIVE TOGETHER WITH PEOPLE OF FAR AWAY PLACES OF OURS.
KNOWING THE SMALL OR BIG THINGS THAT MY NEIGHBOR HAS OF DIFFERENT TO MY, US APPROACH LIKE PERSONS, LEAVING SIDEWAYS FEARS AND FINALLY SEEING THAT WHAT JOINS WITH ALL THE PERSONS, ARE THOSE SO DIVERSE FORMS OF THINKING OR TO ACT.
THE OTHER CAUSES GROWS IN ME WITH THEIR FORM TO BE.