Els rostres de lodi', de Jordi Borràs

Els rostres de l'odi is a photography exhibition based on a book, Tots els colors del negre. L'extrema dreta a l'Europa del segle XXI, also written by photojournalist Jordi Borràs. Both projects run in parallel and stem from the same idea: to explain how "la internacional de l'odi" (the international of hate) is expressed and articulated. An ideological magma that has taken shape in the thousand and one faces of a far right that has, for the most part, managed to reinvent itself and win over an electorate that has propelled it into parliaments across Europe. That is why these photographs show everything from the French or German populist radical right to the Polish or Hungarian ultraconservatives. In other words, a new far right that has managed to shed the stigma of the interwar fascisms and that, under a presumably democratic veneer, hides intolerant discourses that are in large part shared with the most unabashed neo-Nazi fascist groupuscules. Organisations that stir the streets with violence and coexist with the new parliamentary radical right. After all, both worlds feed off each other: some set the political agenda, while the others try to implement hate speech within the institutions. A phenomenon we know all too well in Catalonia, and which has also marked the political agenda of our own country in recent years. It was precisely the desire to document these movements in Catalonia that led the author of these photographs to embark on a long journey across Europe. A journey that is not yet over and that began, precisely, 15 years ago in the town of Arenys de Munt, when a group of Falangists tried to break up the first independence consultation, on 13 September 2009, now a distant memory. Since then, Catalan photojournalist Jordi Borràs has continued to seek answers. Why is the far right growing? Who makes up these movements? What do they have in common with the fascisms of the last century? And all of this, how do we combat it? These photographs explore the presence, growth and normalisation of the different faces of the far right across a continent with very different social and national realities, but with one thing in common: confirming that there is nothing more international than hate.