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“I am starting a thread.”
Today, this phrase usually precedes the explanation of a story told through several tweets. In the digital ecosystem, a thread can be cut, tangled, or manipulated. There is always the temptation to shape it.
Twenty years ago, during the Prestige disaster, the word “thread” acquired another meaning.
Mariano Rajoy, then vice president in the government of José María Aznar, used that term to refer to the 16,000 tons of oil sludge that the tanker was spilling off the Costa da Morte:
“Unos pequeños hilitos. Hay cuatro en concreto, regueros solidificados con aspecto de plastilina en estiramiento vertical”.
The euphemism turned a black tide into an almost invisible strand. The thread ceased to be a thin line and became a malleable material: like a lie that, forged through words, silences, or half-truths, pretends to be true.
The Traces of the Prestige is a photographic work that, two decades later, clears those threads: those of the spill and those of the collective memory that still runs through Galicia.
Today, this phrase usually precedes the explanation of a story told through several tweets. In the digital ecosystem, a thread can be cut, tangled, or manipulated. There is always the temptation to shape it.
Twenty years ago, during the Prestige disaster, the word “thread” acquired another meaning.
Mariano Rajoy, then vice president in the government of José María Aznar, used that term to refer to the 16,000 tons of oil sludge that the tanker was spilling off the Costa da Morte:
“Unos pequeños hilitos. Hay cuatro en concreto, regueros solidificados con aspecto de plastilina en estiramiento vertical”.
The euphemism turned a black tide into an almost invisible strand. The thread ceased to be a thin line and became a malleable material: like a lie that, forged through words, silences, or half-truths, pretends to be true.
The Traces of the Prestige is a photographic work that, two decades later, clears those threads: those of the spill and those of the collective memory that still runs through Galicia.
