Caïm i Abel

I was asked by La Perla to write a few words to talk about Caïm and Abel . It's difficult to describe what one writes, because right now I'm in the middle of the story. Muddy up to the knees. Surrounded by people who eat, sleep and complain to me. Caïm and Abel is now a story that grows and devours me. But I can tell you that there is a security guard pointing a gun at a man. It is dark and cold. We are on a beach. Today. In a border. Both men are seeing each other for the first time, talking, but this meeting without them knowing will change them forever. Caïm and Abel is not the story of two brothers. There is no good and bad. It is the story of two families. One lives on one side of the fence – so similar to ours- and others live kilometers away, where we do not know. Caïm and Abel speaks of survivors. Two generations, two ways of understanding reality. In the last few years – Eighties until today – the world has rushed to a global capitalism that has inserted a handful of requirements that do not exist, and we loaded back to Europe for the best (or the best West) that have decided what is good and what is not for the rest of the world. We don't know what's beyond the fence , maybe we are not afraid, but we prefer to ignore it, on this side of the fence the world is not as we imagined.

Marc Artigau i Queralt