Spain’s Agustín Pérez Rubio presents the concepts that underpinned the curatorship of the exhibition Unerasable Memories – a historic look at the videobrasil collection. In his statement, Pérez Rubio tells that upon perusing the collection gathered by Associação Cultural Videobrasil over the past 30 years, he had access not only to the Festival’s history, but also to the political, geographical and historical contexts in which the selected artworks were produced. He reveals that he examined the political contents the artworks provide, in personal views or eyewitness accounts, and comments on how micro-histories flow into macro-history. Rubio also discusses issues raised by the exhibition, such as colonization and its implications, slavery, migration, civil wars and popular uprisings, among others. Pérez Rubio also comments on the importance of art as an information tool, as opposed to the biased mass media outlets, governed by economic, political or institutional interests – how much truth is left in the news? Prior to being invited to curate the Unerasable Memories show, Agustín Pérez Rubio was a member of the award jury for the 17th Festival (2011).