Documentary object theatre (España-Mexico)

The melancholy of the tourist is a decomposition of moments and objects though which the idea of paradise stays fixed in the imagination. It emerges from a field work we made in Acapulco, Mexico, and La Habana, Cuba. Holiday places where we brought back life stories, photos, postcards and souvenirs that speak about the rise and fall of that mental fantasy. How many seconds last the building and loss of a paradise?

La melancolía del turista is a gallery of mirages, a glimpse of what remains after the intensity of a sublimated landscape that no longer exists—or perhaps never existed—of a body that fades in time, revived only through remnants of memory.

It questions the life of images we produce in our idea of rest. But melancholy is also a suspended state of mind that accompanies the exceptional, an active force that pulls us toward the desire to reinvent and re-imagine ourselves in those lapses when the inertia of things fractures.

An intimate journey for 42 spectators. A small-scale stage where things appear and disappear through blinks: lights and shadows, analog images, fragile mechanisms, miniatures in paper and tin. A delicate theater-cinema, a dream-like play whose poetic inventiveness takes you back to a time when all our toys were alive