The
National Network of Silos, promoted by the National Wheat Service
(founded in 1936 during the Spanish Civi War), was developed from
1940 with the aim of giving rural areas storage space for cereal
production.
Between
1945 and 1986 more than 600 silos and almost 300 barns were built
across the Spanish territory.
The
decline of the network started in 1984, first as a result of the end
of the wheat monopoly which the Spanish state enjoyed until that
moment, and second after Spain’s accession to the European Economic
Community in 1986 that led to the adoption of the Common Agricultural
Policy.
At
the beginning of this century, the national network stopped working
and ownership of the silos transferred to the Autonomous Communities
(regional administration). These regionally-owned buildings, which
formed the so-called Secondary Network, are those currently in the
worst state of disrepair.
“Trigo” is born with the goal of reflecting on the depopulation of small
villages, as society becomes more urban and people move to the big
cities, using as common thread the abandoned state of cereal silos
part of the secondary network in the province of Palencia.
Víctor Quintana was born in Palencia (Spain) in 1986. Self-taught as a photographer.
I am interested in photographing my surrounding territory as a
resource to talk about my own feelings.
