Sagrado bosque de monstruos (Sacred Forest of Monsters)

(2018)

There was no text at the beginning, there was was a space in which the show would take place and a huge amount of books: a series of diverse readings, a monster built by various sources and readings. First there was was a dismembered body: the figure of Santa Teresa - a figure with which I always had a sort of distance - despite the fact that such characters as San Francisco de Asís or San Juan de la Cruz always attracted me. When Hugo Mujica joined the project, he faced some questions: Why we want to do a show around Santa Teresa? Why we choose the figure of Santa Teresa? A mystic who, instead of facing the void, fills her visions of all kinds of characters. It was that, then, that feature of Teresa, her willingness to communicate everything, to say it all, to justify herself, to rename, what distanced me from her. Unlike other figures in mysticism who surrender to emptiness, Teresa filled the void with words. Teresa overflowed with words that God or Christ said to her. Teresa overflowed with readings, too. Teresa was a compulsive reader. Teresa reads cavalry novels that made Alonso Quijano sick and transformed him into Don Quixote. Teresa, then, enters the mystical literature being a reader of all those fictions. Teresa founds convents like Don Quixote fights against windmills. There, then, in that extraordinary cross between literature and life I found the space to create this show. The work as a result of what is read, the work - life itself - built by literature.
Alejandro Tantanian

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