L’exposició de Marco Noris al MUME explora el desarrelament de l’exili

Empordà · 08.11.2019 · Last update: 21.06.2026 · Translation: AI · Project Refugium, refugia · Topics: empordà, press, refugium refugia, mume, exile

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The original article in the Diari de l’Empordà was published in Catalan: emporda.info. It is about «Refugium, refugia», Marco Noris’s exhibition at the MUME (Museu Memorial de l’Exili) in La Jonquera. This English version is an AI translation for my personal archive.

The Museu Memorial de l’Exili (MUME), located in La Jonquera, hosts from 9 November to 3 February 2020 the exhibition «Refugium, refugia». It is a proposal by the painter and draughtsman Marco Noris, who, taking the Rivesaltes concentration camp as inspiration, offers the visitor a journey through the collective emotional memory of exiled people.

With the new exhibition at the MUME, Noris seeks the universality of the individual experience of having to leave everything behind when fleeing from war, beyond eras and nationalities.

The portrait of uprootedness

The exhibition shows around twenty oil paintings and four installations adding up to 120 m² of paper.
The artist portrays the physical and emotional places of exile and, therefore, of uprootedness.
For Noris, refugee camps are at once refuge and condemnation, and they certify the loss of dignity and identity of the refugee, who is cut off from their roots and their past.
The refugee is an exile, and uprootedness becomes an irreversible trauma that affects the very foundations of the human being.

The Rivesaltes camp

Some years ago, during a visit to the Museu Memorial de l’Exili in La Jonquera, Marco Noris first learned of the existence of the Rivesaltes camp. This former concentration camp in the south of France was opened in the 1930s to house Spanish exiles. Interned there, in addition to exiled Republicans, were Jews, Roma, Nazi prisoners and Algerian soldiers of the French army.

Second exhibition at the MUME

In 2017, Marco Noris walked for almost a month along the Pyrenean range, from the edges of Andorra to Portbou, following in the footsteps of the Republican exiles. As he walked, he drew and painted those landscapes in oil. The result of that experience was an exhibition of 132 drawings and paintings in ink and oil made in the open air, shown at the MUME that same year. The new exhibition follows that thread and resumes the artist’s inner research and connection with the emotions of the exiled.

Marco Noris

Born in Bergamo (Italy) in 1971, this Italian painter and draughtsman lives and works in Barcelona since 2003. From 2013 he directed his artistic research towards territory and landscape, ruins and historical memory, moving freely between abstraction and figuration. More recently he has approached walking as an aesthetic and artistic practice.

He has exhibited his work in Catalonia as well as in France, Italy and the United States. Between 2015 and 2017 he was artist in residence at Hangar, a visual arts production centre in Barcelona. He is currently artist in residence at the Piramidón contemporary art centre.

Art, research and education

The MUME combines its museum functions, through temporary exhibitions and a permanent exhibition, with those of historical research and educational outreach around forced displacement and the Civil War.

It is run by the Consortium made up of the Generalitat de Catalunya, through the Department of Justice, the Consell Comarcal de l’Alt Empordà, the La Jonquera Town Council and the University of Girona.

Other temporary exhibitions at the MUME

On 16 November «L’arxiu de la pols. El trànsit de la memòria», by Elena Rivero, will open, on view until 11 January 2020. This exhibition gathers the visual and plastic materials the artist has been working on following her experience of the 11 September 2001 attack on the Twin Towers, located very close to her studio in New York. A parallel exhibition of the same name has been programmed at Naves Matadero (Centro Internacional de Artes Vivas) in Madrid (Nave 11 and Casa de la Azotea. Nave 10) between 13 November 2019 and 5 January 2020.

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