An enlightened country is an exhibition project that foregrounds the role and relevance of the designers who have worked at Editorial Galaxia throughout its 75-year history. Its aim is to bring the publisher’s design and visual identity to the fore through a selection of Galaxia book covers, organised according to chronological and thematic criteria.

The exhibition opens with a contextual overview of Editorial Galaxia as a cultural project, from the motivations of its founders in 1950 to the new horizons pursued by the current team, with particular attention paid to the figure of Xaime Isla Couto, whose contribution to Galaxia’s design has remained largely unknown.

The exhibition layout is structured into four sections corresponding to the periods in which editorial design was led by Xohán Ledo (1950–1970), Francisco Mantecón (1979–1985), Manuel Janeiro (1979–2010) and Hayat Husein (from 2010 to the present).

At the back of the gallery, a selection of pictorial works illustrates how Editorial Galaxia chose specific details from paintings to illustrate the covers of its books and collections.

The project also includes an area devoted to children’s literature, conceived as a hybrid space between exhibition gallery and experimentation area. Alongside examples of the first children’s and young adult books published in Galician by Galaxia, the display includes a contemporary selection and new editions of literary classics.