Cubo: Before Faro

Before Faro brings together three interconnected audiovisual experiences that take visitors on a journey through the collective memory of this landmark building and the city of Santander. 

The programme takes shape in Cubo, an ambitious digital installation spanning two floors of the building. Its interior features a 360° immersive projection system, while its exterior is entirely covered by an LED skin measuring almost 400 m². Cubo explores how technology is transforming the ways we create, connect and understand ourselves, bringing together artists working in collaboration with technology professionals and research centres. 

Before Faro invites visitors on an immersive historical journey inside Cubo, beginning in 1857, the year Banco Santander was founded, and continuing to the present day. The experience interweaves the evolution of the port and the city with milestones in the Bank’s history and some of the most significant events in contemporary history. 

BEFORE FARO SANTANDER CREDITS 

ORGANISED AND PRODUCED BY 
Faro Santander – Fundación Banco Santander 

AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTION 
Layers of Reality 

SCRIPT 
Zanskar Producciones 

MUSEOGRAPHIC PRODUCTION 

Intervento  

COLLABORATION AND RESEARCH 

Andrés Hoyo Aparicio 
José Antonio Gutiérrez Sebares 

Archives and Image Sources 

Centro de la Imagen de Santander (CDIS) 
Ayuntamiento de Santander 
International Center of Photography 
Magnum Photos 
Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE) 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) 
Radio Televisión Española (RTVE) 

Photographs by 

J. Laurent 
Joaquín Araúna 
Pablo Isidro Duomarco 
Luis Ramón Marín 
Louis-Émile Durandelle 
Christian Franzen 
Fondo Francisco Gómez Redondo 
Robert Capa, International Center of Photography / Magnum Photos 

EXHIBITION PRINTS 

Jacob Ottmann 
Henri Brispot 
Autores anónimos 
Louis Jean Lumière 

Newspaper Reproductions 

Mundo Gráfico 
La Abeja Montañesa 
El Tiempo Madrid 
La Época Madrid 
La Voz de Cantabria 
La Región 
Gaceta de Tenerife 
El Correo 
Granada Gráfica 
Lucha 
CNT 
Boinas Rojas 
La Vanguardia 

Every reasonable effort has been made to identify the authors and rights holders of all images reproduced in this exhibition. However, in some cases, authorship could not be established.