"We pay a pending moral debt by rescuing the truth from the pit of memory," says Delgado in the first pages of the catalogue that has been published for the exhibition, and underlines that disdain for the exiles, who were "persecuted, slandered and minimized by Franco's regime, is something that a democracy such as Spain cannot afford."

The exhibition will be open to the public until January 31, 2020 at La Arquería de Nuevos Ministerio in Madrid.

The exhibition, which has been visited by Dolores Delgado, accompanied by the ministers in charge of Promotion, José Luis Ábalos, and of Culture and Sport, José Guirao, is a state tribute to the approximately half million Spanish republicans who in 1939 crossed the border with France as a result of the persecution to which their ideals and their defense of democratic values were subjected. It is also intended to bring the citizens closer to the relevance of exile and help to make their legacy and contribution to the progress of the countries that welcomed them known. The third objective is precisely to extend gratitude to the different peoples who gave the exiles a new homeland, far from Spain.

The exhibition has been promoted by the Government through the Interministerial Commission for the Commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Spanish republican exile which, throughout 2019, has organized more than a hundred events in a dozen countries spread over three continents.

The space of The Archery of New Ministries brings together for this exhibition, three approaches to exile and just over 300 pieces of plastic work, photographic reproductions and publications, among other media, that reflect the most important cultural, artistic and literary manifestations of those who best documented this exodus. The writer and art critic Juan Manuel Bonet is the curator of the main exhibition '1939. Spanish Republican Exile', in which Manuel Aznar and Idoia Murga have also collaborated as scientific advisors. The installation is a design by the architect Juan Pablo Martínez Frade, responsible, among other projects, for the works of habilitation of the access plant of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía that will be undertaken from next year. Felip Solé and Grégory Tuban are the curators of Philippe Gaussot's photographic exhibition, 'Pathways of Exile', coordinated by Kiko Herrero. Finally, Carmen Fernández Ortiz is responsible for the installation 'Blood is not water' by the artist Pierre Gonnord.