Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol
Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol is a flock of artists. We work on stage, we make books, radio, videos and learning processes.
Since 2003, we started developing projects as a mechanism to link work and life, to erase and trace frontiers. Our work seeks to create narratives upon events from the reality. It has nothing to do with entertainment, it’s a space to think, articulate, dislocate and unravel what the everyday life fuses, overlooks and presents us as given.
Things are what they are, but they can also be another way.
We have presented our work in almost all the states of the Mexican Republic, we have made performed in festivals, independent venues, state theaters and universities.
Overseas, among many others, we have worked in Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid. Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels. Schaubuhne, Berlin. FIBA, Buenos Aires. Wiener Festwochen, Wien. Festival de automne, Paris. Theater Spektakel, Zurich. FTA, Montreal. HAU, Berlín. Kammerspiele, Munich. Santiago a mil, Santiago. Bienal de teatro, Sao Paulo. DeSingel, Antwerp. Festival internacional, Caracas. FAEL, Lima. Belluard international, Friburg. Cena Contemporánea, Brasilia. TBA, Portland. FIAC, Salvador de Bahía. Festival de otoño, Madrid. RADAR, LA. Temporada alta, Girona. Dialog Festival, Wroclaw. Centro cultural España, Guatemala. Bad, Bilbao. Inteatro, Ancona. TNT, Terrasa. Mess, Sarajevo. Fusebox, Austin. Norderzon, Groningen. Among many others.
Luisa Pardo
(Xalapa, 1983)
Theater maker, aspiring farmer, and teacher. She is the founder and co-director of the collective Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol, with over 20 artistic projects and a presence in 23 countries across various forums and festivals. She has worked on theater projects with Hugo Arrevillaga, Juliana Faesler, Marco Canale, among others, and on film projects with Yulene Olaizola, Marise Sistach, and Nicolás Pereda, among others. She has collaborated closely with the Cine Too Lab project and the CAI in Oaxaca. She is currently developing and coordinating the artistic-educational project YIVI in the Mixteca Alta region.
Lázaro Gabino Rodríguez
(Durango, 1983)
Lázaro G. Rodríguez is an artist whose practice unfolds in a variety of mediums. His work consists of explorations of fiction and its possible relationships with reality. His projects take final form as theater projects, texts, films, videos, and radio productions.In cinema, he has worked as an actor in around fifty films, many of them with Nicolás Pereda, with whom he has built a long-term collaboration spanning 18 years and 14 films, exploring the self-representation, aging and the construction of a discourse through performance. He holds a master’s degree in theater from the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (AHK). He was born in Durango and lives in Ciudad de México.
Francisco Barreiro
(México, D.F. 1983)
Actor and director. He has worked consistently since 2005 with the collective Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol. In 2010, he received the Golden Scythe Award for Best Actor in Manchester, England, for the film We Are What We Are. In 2012, he took part in the Talent Actors Stage at the Berlin Film Festival. That same year, he won the Best Actor award at the Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, and in 2014 he was nominated for the 2013 Fangoria Chainsaw Award, both for the film Here Comes the Devil. In 2017, he was nominated for the Diosas de Plata for the film The Beginning of Time. In 2021, he received the prestigious ICS Award (International Cinephile Society) for Best Supporting Actor of 2020 for the film Fauna.
Mariana Villegas
(Sinaloa, 1986)
Actress. Her work is rooted in the relationship between self-referential performance and social context. Se Rompen las Olas has been presented at festivals such as Santiago a Mil in Santiago de Chile; VIE Festival in Italy; Radar L.A.; Teatro a Una Sola Voz; and the Heidelberg Stückemarkt in Germany, among others. Este cuerpo mío premiered at the Endstation Sehnsucht Festival in Munich and has been shown at HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin and at Temporada Alta in Lima. She has performed in and collaborated on theater, dance, performance, and film projects. She is currently working on her third piece, Maleza. She has been a member of Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol since 2007.
Sergio López Vigueras
(México DF, 1985)
Playwright, director, and stage designer. He studied Dramatic Literature and Theater at UNAM. In 2017, he received the Gerardo Mancebo del Castillo National Playwriting Award for his play La Bala. He won Best Play, Best Direction, and Best Set Design at the 17th National University Theater Festival for his adaptation of Miss Julie. He has designed sets, lighting, and multimedia for over forty productions, working with companies such as Seña y Verbo Teatro de Sordos, La Máquina de Teatro, Figurat, TeatroSinParedes, Área 51, Teatro Legeste, and Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol.
Juan Leduc
(México, D.F. 1983)
Graphic designer, iconographic researcher, and photographer. Since 2016, he has been part of the audiobook publishing collective Cascajo alongside Andrés García and Lázaro Gabino Rodríguez; and since 2017, part of Ediciones sin resentimiento, a graphic book publisher, with Óscar Suárez and José Pulido. He is the author of Estado de México (Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol and Malpaís, 2017) and 30 canciones (Ediciones sin resentimiento). He has worked as a graphic designer, photographer, and/or iconographic researcher for Festival Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces, Luna Córnea magazine, Festival d’Automne in Paris, UAM, UNAM, MUAC, the Museo de Arte Popular, Canal Once, The Lift, among others.
Marcela Flores Méndez
(México, D.F., 1976)
She studied Acting at El Foro de Teatro Contemporáneo from 1998 to 2002, and later specialized in Lighting Design at the Escuela Superior de Artes del Espectáculo of the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia from 2003 to 2005. She has worked as a lighting designer and technical director with Mapa Teatro, Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol, and the International Festival of Electronic Arts and Video 03, as well as at the Centro Multimedia and the National Center for the Arts. She is currently the director of the Centro de Cultura Digital
Pedro Pizarro Villalobos
(México D.F., 1981)
Architect (UNAM) and visual artist. He has designed and built earthen architecture projects in Guatemala, the United States, Brazil, Mexico, China, and Peru. He has reinterpreted the fresco painting technique, applying it to earthen walls and portable wooden panels. Together with Luisa Pardo, he develops Taller Yivi, an artistic and educational project with children and youth from the Mixteca Alta region of Oaxaca. He is a member of the Ibero-American Network for Architecture and Earthen Construction.
Chantal Peñalosa
(Baja California, 1987)
Visual artist. Her explorations engage with phenomena such as waiting, the unnoticed, and the passage of time—spaces where political and social aspects may emerge. In another line of work, she has examined episodes in art history that remain in a state of stand-by, having been omitted, forgotten, or rejected. Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as MUAC, Mexico (2021); Museo Jumex, Mexico (2021); Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (2021); Centro Cultural Kirchner, Argentina (2021); M HKA Museum, Belgium (2019); the XII FEMSA Biennial; and ZKM Center for Art and Media, Germany, among others. She is currently part of the ISP (Independent Study Program) at the Whitney Museum