When a wall crumbles, the stones fall down, roll over and scatter (this is a SOLSIDA). The wall does not disappear though, it simply no longer holds up the earth it once did. Almost as if they were walls, the communities that comprised many rural villages in the region of Valencia collapsed during the second half of the 20th century due to the changes brought on through industrialisation, the concentration of services, education and job opportunities in the cities. Those communities are now starting to see their populations grow. That is due to the fact that urban societies have now changed the way they see rural areas, under new paradigms of sustainability, nature and leisure. But the new settlers to those villages bring new lifestyles with them, and a different understanding of the world, which are more urban than rural. The collapsed wall is built up again, but the community that made it is not the same.
With SOLSIDA, L'ETNO proposes a reflection on the journey that has transformed the image of "the rural" and the cultural perspectives of the people who have inhabited and inhabit the Valencian rural communities.
