The Pact of the Devil

The performance El Pacto del Olvido ( The Pact of Forgetting ) explores the effect of Spanish political silence on family generations, from the Franco dictatorship to the present. In the hope of understanding recent political violence in Spain, El Pacto del Olvido sheds light on the nation's traditions of oppression.

With a look at the collective memory of the country, El Pacto del Olvido shows the consequences of hidden histories on subsequent generations, including within the family of creator Sergi Casero Nieto himself.

With both autofiction and historical analysis, this memory exercise sketches the contours of collective silence. The performance offers a glimpse into a memory riddled with holes through which decades of suppressed pain has seeped. In this way, Sergi attempts to alleviate the trauma caused by a social discourse that discusses winners and losers as impersonal groups.

Sergi investigates how different generations deal with the collective memory loss he sees in his own family. Over time, voices emerge from that silence, telling us about the price of forgetting and the space needed to rebuild our memory.

[Source (Original or ML Translation): Frascati]