Taxio Ardanaz
Most of the rights we have today were fought for beneath a banner. A piece of bedsheet, cloth or plastic has for over a century been the most widely-used medium to denounce an injustice and build community. Some have changed the course of history but, unlike other popular forms of graphic expression, the banner is neither archived nor kept: once the urgency of its creation has passed, no trace remains. This is why it is important to remember them, and with them the memory of the social movements that brought them out onto the street, dancing, singing and shouting, linking us to an image, a desire and, above all, a transformational political action.
