Hungerland

HUNGERLAND is a multimedia project born as an answer to the contemporary economic system and its current representation: the economic crisis. Following the trail of hunger in Spain, HUNGERLAND expects bringing to light how capitalism and powers that hold it push population to survive out of vital rights. Cuts in health and education, unemployment and household debt have left much of the population impoverished. Thousands of Spanish families not only face a housing and energy emergency; also a food emergency. This represents the final step in the scale of deprivation , it means, having nothing to eat.

The economic situation has modified our food habits and affected our food security. The purchasing power of most of families has decreased, then the money that they have for buying food, when it is posible. Before the crisis, we refered to food security in terms of preservation of security, health standards and cleanliness of food. Not anymore: today talk about food security means talking about the difficulties that people face for getting food that garantizes their needs.

HUNGERLAND combines photography, video and text documenting different cases where the right to food is vulnerated and, then, facing and naming a reality that, often, don't become known out of homes that suffer it. Minewhile politicians talk about an hipothetical end of the crisis in Spain, HUNGERLAND confronts spectators to a close reality, but intangible, and alerts about the wounds we are getting use to live with.