Francisco Huici - Aguafuertes del Abasto (2019)

"They never paid attention to the tango culture, to the point that a tango had to come to sing to Abasto" (Polaco Goyeneche, alluding to Luca Prodan).
The project revolves around the insertion experiences that the different migratory currents have suffered, their vision of the new world, their hopes, their misfortunes and their uprooting too, translated into the conservation of certain customs. This is how a new instance begins to take shape, this being the "prolongation of the same tradition of always molded and born on the grounds of a strange culture" (Kureishi).
The challenge of this production is to cross those experiences. Rescue the imprints of the past and resignify them with the words of the current protagonists: African and Peruvian culture. A community that coexists but that is not integrated; he shares the streets, the daily life, and above all the future of this, his new homeland, but they do not meet, they do not look at each other. "The neighborhood implies an amalgam of traditions, a wide musical spectrum where a tango may appear as well as a bachata, expressions that respond basically to the same characteristics and demands throughout the continent; in this there are no insurmountable abysses. The union is narrow, the bridge is unique, permanent and above all, it is immense. "(The Book of Salsa, chronicle of the music of the urban Caribbean, by César Miguel Rondón, Venezuela).
It is necessary to assume the differences and reflect on them to approach from another place, understanding that a people that is not known and that does not open to dialogue is more permeable to the influence of the products of the commercial circuit, generally imported and foreignizing, and inescapably omnipresent when living under the cultural complexes that underdevelopment implies. The epicenter is the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Abasto, once a popular market, which has always had a unique color, product of the coexistence of the most different communities.