El archivo de historias en la construcción de la Historia: la obra cartográfica de Rogelio López Cuenca

Résumé

From the seventies, the historians have brought their research closer to the needs of a plural society. The artist, too, adopts a critical stance against the unequal treatment of the various identities throughout a more or less recent History. One way to deal with oblivion is to evidence the trace as a redoubt present in physical space, emotionally linked to the societies that generated it. Some contemporary artists assume the role of historians and they create archives open from local histories in the margins of institutional History, although both share the same spaces. In this sense, the cartographic projects of the artist Rogelio López Cuenca (Málaga, Spain, 1959) are based on the creation of archives of individual memories of cities to set up a hidden, omitted or distorted collective memory. El revés de la trama is an alternative cartographic project originated from the Derrotas alternativas: Now/here Mataró (2008); Mappa di Roma (Rome, 2006-‐07); No/w/here. Ciudad de México (México, 2010); and Polivalencias (Valencia 2015-‐16), are projects directed by this artist about citizen memories local which he collects through a rigorous research work following a historiography and cartography method. The conclusion, materialized under the formal structure of interactive map in its web page, is a file of histories of diverse temporalities in hypertext that speak of latent topics still present in the cities to be part of its present. Este trabajo de investigación forma parte de la Tesis Doctoral financiada con una ayuda predoctoral (19099/FPI/13) con cargo al Programa de Formación del Personal Investigador de la Fundación Séneca, Agencia de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Región de Murcia en el marco del III PCTRM 2011-‐14.