A Spanish police patrol car passes through one of Valencia’s largest parks and Lorena López, a 29-year-old Colombian woman, freezes and completely loses focus in her boxing class. She remembers the U.S. agents who held her for a year and a half at the Eloy Detention Center in Arizona and the officers from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who deported her, handcuffed at hands and feet, to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on April 15, 2026. When she sees the officers, she also recalls the armed men she and 14 other Latin Americans encountered at the hotel where they were held in Kinshasa for two months. But then she immediately realizes that since she was able to leave that African country in June she is free and safe in Spain.

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Nacho Valle is a restless figure, a distinctive entrepreneur. When he was young he ran a hangout with a friend in the old El Carmen neighborhood that became a benchmark of Valencia’s alternative music and rock and roll scene, Túrmix. After his father’s death he took over the Valle Ortí art gallery. He learned the trade, toured the world visiting fairs, introduced contemporary art into his program and managed to get into the ARCO selection in Madrid. Then the 2012 economic crisis hit, coinciding with his own personal crisis and a certain weariness with a city whose collectors are few in number and mostly prefer to buy abroad. So he left. He needed a change.

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