When We Were The Five, 2025

Installation/ Mixed Media
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When We Were The Five is a project that blends fiction and reality, built around a photograph taken at the Pirámide nightclub (Cabanes, Spain) in 2009, the year the club closed due to the economic crisis that began in 2008. The protagonists of the image appear distorted, anonymous, almost ghostly… stripped of a specific personality, becoming the collective identity of any teenager in the Valencia region who, in those years, lived in a hedonistic era that was coming to an end.

The fictional part of the project is inspired by the stories told in the series of young adult novels “The Famous Five” by the writer Enid Blyton. These novels, so popular during the 20th century, generate interest in the archetype of adolescence presented in them. This creates a contrast with the different model of youth that concerns us and shows the social reality of an era marked by the excesses of the property bubble and also by the shortcomings of the economic crisis (and hangover) that followed.