The Espai d’Art La Casilla exhibits a photographic collection about Serra Gelada ochre mine

Benidorm's Espai d'Art la Casilla will host a new photography exhibition by Benidorm-based photographer Jaume Fuster, awarded the "Ciutat de Benidorm Cultural Distinction," with the evocative title "The Ochre Labyrinth." The exhibition will open tomorrow, Friday, July 11, at 8:00 p.m. and can be visited at this exhibition centre, located at 25 Vía de Emilio Ortuño, until November 23, according to Ana Pellicer, Councillor for Historical and Cultural Heritage of the Benidorm City Council.

Fuster's work, carried out over four years, will take us into the depths of the ochre mine in Ti Ximo cove, located south of the Serra Gelada mountain range, in an area formerly known as Barranquet Tort or Segon Barranquet, beyond the tip of Llissera.

Throughout the 54 images that make up the exhibition, viewers will be able to discover its most hidden galleries and caves, as well as the marks on the rock and the remains of the mine tracks used by ancient miners.

Since mining ceased in the 1970s, the mine has been used by many visitors, leaving a very distinctive mark, a strange portrait of our tourist destination in Benidorm: beach buckets and shovels, counterfeit advertising money, real estate promotions, platform shoes, phosphorescent dinosaurs... All of this contributes to a fascinating aura of mystery that surrounds this unique spot and highlights this first-rate natural, cultural, industrial, historical, and anthropological heritage, which should be preserved as a treasure within the Serra Gelada Natural Park.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog containing images from the exhibition and texts by historians who have researched the mine—such as Professor Francisco Amillo—, testimonies from the children of the last miners, and the only known topography of the mine, created by speleologists Alberto Sendra and Santiago Teruel, among others, and drawn by Joan Fuster.

The Councillor for Historical and Cultural Heritage publicly invited the public to "join us for the opening of this exhibition and to visit it over the coming months to enjoy the fascinating images captured by Jaume Fuster of this site, so much ours but at the same time so unknown to many Benidorm residents."