Paloma Fernandez Sobrino… who is it? Above all, she is an artist director and she is after all an inhabitant of the land who carries with her her accent and her history of migration. The story of a double migration, from Castile to Catalonia, then from Catalonia to France, convinced that she was to find new treasures in the north.
Apart from loneliness, Paloma Fernandez Sobrino found it urgent to collect 400 testimonies of intimate stories of migrant people in The Encyclopedia of Migrants. This is the name of this huge work done from 3 countries (France, Spain, Portugal), brings together a thousand and one fragmentations of experience. To want to arrive is to have come halfway says the proverb: from Breton Finistère to Gibraltar, it is this Arab proverb which circulates and which would perhaps not have displeased a certain encyclopaedist named Diderot…
The musical choices of Paloma Fernandez Sobrino
Camaron de la Isla Nana del caballo grande
Juanito Valderrama The emigrant
Alberto Iglesias Todo sober mi madre