Her multimedia installation entitled '' Gernika/Guernica '' ( 2007 ) commemorates the 70th anniversary of the attack on Gernika by Nazi Germany ordered by President Franco , the dictator of Spain at the time . Glesta spent part of her teenage years in Northern Spain in the 1970s and felt an affinity for the experience of political turmoil there , and the legacy of Guernica ( Gernika is the Basque spelling ) . It was her proximity to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center that spurred her to develop this body of work where she interviewed the survivors of the bombing of Guernica . The installation was exhibited by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council at Chase Manhattan Plaza ( three blocks from Ground Zero in New York ) , as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University , Beijing
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Anita Glesta