Plague The last dance

Plague - The last dance

"IN BED YOU ARE BORN, YOU PLEASE, YOU SUFFER, YOU DREAM, YOU REST... YOU DIE".

Plague - The last dance

A work that we created in 2017 with the help of Hector Bolivar, researcher and specialist in epidemics and contagious diseases at the University of Miami; about the musical piece, "The Urban" by the renowned composer Fredrick Kaufman, who actively participated in the feedback of the work.

“Plage, The Last Dance” is an installation-action*, which, based on different visual techniques, allows us to see in parallel the body, its condition and our own vulnerability as a society. Making the bed the main element, place of illness and cure; It serves as an allegory to externalize the numerous transformations to which we are subjected as humanity in the face of the inevitable consequences that an epidemic brings with it, the physiological, emotional, religious, economic and social changes are just a sample of the planes affected.

Plague - The last dance

Historically, various epidemics and pandemics have been catastrophic for humanity. The magnitude of these biological catastrophes would profoundly and forever modify the different human structures. Art, particularly in its visual and literary manifestations, involved an element of psychological defense and reconciliation in the face of these epidemics.

“We don't usually pay due attention to the important role that the bed plays in our lives. We are born in one bed and die in another, and half of our existence passes within it. The bed shelters our illnesses, it is the nest of our dreams, the battlefield of love. It is our most intimate space, the primordial lair of the animal that we carry within. For Frida Kahlo, the Mexican painter, the bed was all this and much more: shelter, torture rack, sacred altar.”

Rosa Montero, Women's Stories, 1995. Frida Kahlo: The world is a bed.

Las diferentes telas a modo de mantas junto con el uso de video-proyecciones, establecen momentos en los que se pierde la figura humana para convertirla en un microorganismo que vive paralelamente en un individuo infectado y luego también es el reflejo a nivel macro, convirtiendo esta cama en el mundo entero en todas sus escalas.

Una pantalla trasera muestra lo que una cámara cenital en el escenario captura en vivo, permitiendo al público una segunda perspectiva de lo que ocurre en el acto, convirtiéndolos en Dios y acompañante al mismo tiempo.

«En la cama se nace, se place, se sufre, se cree, se sueña, se pasa un tercio de la vida y se muere.»

Una enfermedad es una invasión de la cama, de la tranquilidad. Una epidemia es una invasión de la vida y la sociedad.