“The return to nature has always meant for me a return to the place where I am able to reflect. A reflection that I cannot understand as distanced from culture.” For Francesc Abad, culture and nature are part of the same domain, on both a living and symbolic level. “The gesture to write the word Auschwitz and the fact that the passing of time leads to its disappearance enables me to construct memory.” This memory, in the personal case of the artist, is rooted in the earliest oral stories heard during childhood, beneath a persimmon tree during an English summer camp held at a residence for textile workers in Terrassa. As Abad himself explains: “Later on, this culture of memory, the memory of the losers, would turn into an ethical vocabulary in my artistic work.” Faced with a society that tends towards forgetfulness, this sense of responsibility and collective memory works as an ethical imperative over and against any other aesthetic or formal consideration.