From Thursday to Saturday, from 22 to 31 January, Matías Umpierrez will be putting on a performance piece at Conde Duque, reflecting on power, hate speech and human consciousness.
The title, loaded with resonances (through the multiple meanings of the word "play"), encapsulates the manifold nature of a piece that shifts seamlessly between the symbolic, the political and the poetic.
Umpierrez constructs a sensory and fragmented landscape using old tape recorders, slides, sculptures, puppets and recorded voices. These elements make up a visual and auditory orchestra that highlights the difficulty of seeing oneself in others, of coexisting in a world where the noise of power and vanity drowns out empathy. The result is a performance collage in which each fragment reveals the tensions, abuses and resentments that run through both public and private life.
More than a performance, it is a laboratory of images, sounds and reflections that invites the viewer to look at and listen to themselves from a different perspective. Between the hell and heaven of consciousness, Umpierrez proposes a provocative journey through the limits of representation and power, where theatre ceases to be entertainment and becomes an act of resistance and thought.
Matías Umpierrez is a multimedia creator and film director born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1980. He studied film at the University of Film in Buenos Aires and at the School of Visual Arts in New York (United States). Among his most outstanding works are films such as Las huellas borradas and Las facultades along with installations such as La máquina de la muerte.
He has been recognised by the BGH company as one of the 100 most innovative Argentine artists of the last 100 years, and during his career, he has exhibited in eminent institutions such as the MALBA Museum, the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), the Lincoln Center and the Cannes Film Festival. He has also taught film and visual arts at several educational academies in Argentina.
Artistic credits:
- Performer, dramatist and director - Matías Umpierrez
- Executive producer - Elena Martínez- ElenArtesescénicas
- Lighting design - Matías Sendón
- Sound and audiovisual design - Daniel Jumillas
- Assistant Director - Carla R. Cabané
- Technical coordination - Bela Nagy and Juan Miguel Alcarria
- Co-producers - Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Conde Duque (Spain), ArtHaus, Centro de Creación Contemporánea (Argentina) and Studio Matías Umpierrez (Spain)
- Support - co-presented by UNAM (Mexico) and TIFT (Canada)
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Recommended age: suitable for all ages
