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The Diputació de València has opened this Wednesday at MuVIM the exhibition "Raising the Shutter. On the Recovery of Local Commerce After DANA", a project led by the Department of Regionalization and Economic Promotion with the collaboration of Unió Gremial and EASD, which handled the design. Open until 2 May, the exhibition brings together testimonies, photographs, and an artistic installation that recalls the reopening of small businesses after the disaster of 29 October 2024. The display is organized into three sections that guide visitors from the immediate impact of the flooding to the final reopening. Its modular structure, with images printed on PVC, is designed to fit non-exhibition spaces and to travel to the affected municipalities. The first section, "The Shop Window," uses a cardboard-box installation as a three-dimensional infographic to show the water levels reached and the amount of merchandise lost, conveying the scale of the damage. The second section, in the MuVIM hall, gathers most of the photographic and documentary material in a visually dense arrangement that presents the shops before, during, and after recovery. The third section, in the English courtyard, is the most intimate part of the exhibition, with an audiovisual piece built from direct testimonies by shop owners and workers, highlighting the hope and effort behind every reopened shutter. The project aims to underline local commerce as an essential part of everyday life and to reclaim ordinary gestures such as raising a shutter or hearing a bell as part of the recovery of a wounded society and the cohesion of the territory.