No tengo por qué seguir soñando con los cadáveres que he visto

It is a commission we received from the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. They proposed we create a piece within the framework of the exhibition Esperpento (Arte popular y revolución estética), which explores the concept of esperpento created by the writer Ramón María del Valle-Inclán (1866–1936).

We decided to work on the novel Tirano Banderas, and what we did was ask six exiled Nicaraguan women to write a letter to El Tirano. The piece consists of a video and an activation in which the words of these women—whose lives were changed by a tyrant who forced them into exile—are staged. Addressing a fictional character, they speak to us of reality. A reality just as, or even more, grotesque than the one that gave rise to Valle’s novel.

Based on the bululú version—a theatrical genre in which a single performer enacts the entire work—conceived by the stage director Cipriano Rivas Cherif. With No tengo por qué seguir soñando con los cadáveres que he visto, the collective hands over the space of representation to the women absent from Valle-Inclán’s novel, yet equally victims of the tyranny and violence it portrays.

A project by Lagartijas tiradas al sol.

In collaboration with: Luisa Pardo, Lázaro G. Rodríguez, Pedro Pizarro, Sergio López Vigueras, Abel Tejeda Esparza, Gabriela Selser, Anexa Alfred, Las pinoleras, Madriz, Teresa Ruiz, Laura Gaspar, and Dulce Jazmín Mateos.