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Manuel Sendón Opens 'Espantallos. 2012–2025' at Fundación Laxeiro in Vigo

Sequenced images turn three Fisterra figures into a lens on Galicia’s rural condition.

Overview

  • The exhibition, inaugurated today in Vigo, presents 31 square photographs measuring 50x50 cm and remains on view through May 10, 2026.
  • Sendón’s project tracks three scarecrows in Fisterra from 2012 to 2025, extending a focus that began in 2007 and was first consolidated in his 2015 book Espantallos.
  • The most recent photographs from December show one figure gone, another toppled, and a third reduced to its iron spine.
  • The artist frames the sequences as a metaphor for the state of Galician agriculture and, in recent years, sees the reading expanding to global conditions.
  • The installation highlights vernacular recycling and challenges the urban label of feísmo, which Sendón criticizes as a classist ‘mental colonization.’