'Las Lámparas: Encender un fuego', by Leticia Skrycky

Encender un fuego (Turn On a Light) is a situation that stems from the research and creation process of Las Lámparas (The Lamps), its first solo piece. Leticia Skrycky offers one of the “wood chips” that kindles this work: an electric bonfire, a campfire, an ancient fire, a heat that surrounds us and brings us together to share a story about unpronounceable emotions.

The idea of the fire could also be the idea of a well, a deep hole. Growing inwards in the intuitive insistence on what cannot be touched.

Las lámparas: Encender un fuego is simultaneously a talk and a session for warming one's eyes, for opening them and letting them fall. The piece is derived from Proyecto Táctil, an investigation begun in 2017 with Alina Ruiz Folini.

Leticia Skrycky (Montevideo, 1985) is a creator and performance designer. With a degree in dance from the University of the Republic (Uruguay), she primarily works in the field of performance and contemporary dance. Taking lighting as her starting point, she researches practices of co-creation and interaction between languages on the stage, between human and non-human matter.

Interested in collaboration as a principle, she has created works in dialogue with a variety of international artists, most recently Proyecto Táctil with Alina Ruiz Folini and Luciana Chieregati. She collaborates with and provides technical direction for João Fiadeiro - RE.AL (PT), a task she has also undertaken with Perro Rabioso / Tamara Cubas (UY) and the international festival FIDCU (UY). In addition, she has recently collaborated as a designer with international artists and has run workshops in Uruguay, Chile, Spain and Portugal. She currently lives in Lisbon, Portugal.

Show and artist information

• Research and production: Leticia Skrycky
• Assisted by: Ibon Salvador, Ayara Hernández Holz and Leonor Courtoisie
• With the support of: Research residences at SOOPA (Porto, PT) and GRANER (Barcelona, ES)