Manuel Borja-Villel: a New Messiah

El Pais

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Fabular paisatges is an exhibition about colonialism, in all its forms: racism, immigration, destruction or appropriation of natural assets, human exploitation. But it is not the model of museum, as Manuel Borja-Villel had announced about his proposal when he was appointed advisor to the Catalan museums. On the one hand, none of the directors of Catalan museums wanted to be “advised”, since they do their job well or badly and have won a competit…