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 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)
Artist, peasant apprentice and teacher. Founder and co-director of the collective Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol, with more than 20 artistic projects and presence in 23 countries in 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 collaborated closely with the Cine Too Lab project and the CAI in Oaxaca. She currently develops and coordinates the artistic-educational project YIVI, Mixteca Alta.
Lázaro Gabino Rodríguez
(Durango, 1983)
He holds a Master’s degree in theatre from the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (AHK). Since 2003 he has been part of the collective Lagartijas tiradas al sol, where he has developed his work in theatre. He writes various texts and has been part of the audiobook publishing house Cascajo since 2016. As an actor he has participated in more than 30 feature films with Nicolás Pereda, Raya Martin, Gust Van der Berghe and Yulene Olaizola. He has received numerous awards and has been the subject of retrospectives at the Toulouse, Paris Cinema, Geneva and Cali Film Festivals.
Francisco Barreiro
(México, D.F. 1983)
Actor and Director. He has worked steadily since 2005 with the collective Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol. In 2010 he won the Golden Scythe Award for Best Actor in Manchester, England, for the film «Somos lo que hay». In 2012 he participated in the Talent Actors Stage at the Berlin Film Festival. That same year he won the award for Best Actor at the Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas and in 2014 he was nominated for the Fangoria Chainsaw Award in 2013, both for the film «Ahí va el Diablo». In 2017 he was nominated for the Diosas de Plata for the film «El Comienzo del Tiempo». In 2021 he won the prestigious ICS Award (International Cinephile Society) for Best Supporting Actor in 2020 for the film «Fauna».
Mariana Villegas
(Sinaloa, 1986)
Actress. Her work is based on the relationship between the self-referential scene and the social context. Se Rompen las Olas was presented at the festivals Santiago a Mil in Santiago de Chile; VIE Festival in Italy; Radar L.A; Teatro a una sola voz; Heidelberg Stückemarkt in Germany, among others. Este cuerpo mío premiered at the Endstation Sehnsucht festival in Munich and has been presented at HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin and at Temporada Alta in Lima. She has acted and collaborated in theatre, dance, performance and film pieces. She is now working on her third piece Maleza. She has been part 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. Gerardo Mancebo del Castillo National Playwriting Award 2017 for his play La Bala. Best play, direction and scenography at the XVII National University Theater Festival for his version of Señorita Julia. He has designed scenography, lighting and multimedia for more than forty productions, 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. Together with Andrés García and Lázaro Gabino Rodríguez he has been part of the audiobook publishing house Cascajo since 2016; and with Óscar Suárez and José Pulido of Ediciones sin resentimiento, a graphic book publishing house since 2017. Author of the books 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 the Festival Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces, the magazine Luna Córnea, the festival d’Automne de París, the UAM, the UNAM, the MUAC, the Museum of Popular Art, Canal Once, The Lift, among others.
Marcela Flores Méndez
(México, D.F., 1976)
She studied Acting at the El Foro de Teatro Contemporáneo from 1998 to 2002 and subsequently specialized in Lighting Technology at the Higher School of Performing Arts of the Barcelona Theatre Institute and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia from 2003 to 2005. She has worked as a lighting technician and technical director with Mapa Teatro, Lagartijas tiradas al sol and the International Festival of Electronic Arts and Video 03, Multimedia Center, National Center of the Arts. She worked at the Center for Digital Culture as Deputy Director of Cultural Programming.
Pedro Pizarro Villalobos
(México D.F., 1981)
Architect from UNAM and visual artist. He has designed and built earth architecture projects in Guatemala, the United States, Brazil, Mexico, China and Peru. He has reinterpreted the fresco painting technique by applying it to earth walls and portable wooden panels. Together with Luisa Pardo, he developed the Yivi Workshop, an educational artistic project with children and young people from the Mixteca Alta Oaxaqueña. He is part of the Ibero-American Network of Architecture and Construction with Earth.
Chantal Peñalosa
(Baja California, 1987)
Visual artist. Her explorations negotiate with phenomena such as waiting, the unnoticed and the passage of time, where it is possible to glimpse political and social aspects. In another axis, she has worked on passages in art history that have a stand-by temporality, due to having been omitted, forgotten or rejected. Her work has been shown in institutions such as MUAC, Mexico, 2021; Museo Jumex 2021, Mexico; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, 2021; Centro Cultural Kirchner, 2021, Argentina; M HKA Museum, Belgium, 2019; XII FEMSA Biennial; ZKM Center for Art and Media, Germany, among others.