About my work

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by Fernando Rubio

In my works I try to achieve the utopia of establishing bonds of deep and unchanging connections among actors, spectators, and the objects used, through a dialogue between the stage, visual arts, and the thought on the construction of cities and natural environments.

By creating spaces and stories that enable new ways of reflecting ourselves; by taking recognizable elements and objects and placing them in a new context with different parameters from those of reality, to thus discover the possibility of weaving a fabric of connections between the space and the human aspect that have not yet been perceived.

I take into account the body of the spectator, his memory as one of the mysteries the plays propose. By being within the construction of the object, his presence is a tour around the suspicions that nourish an area of the inner fabric that is always changing, from spectator to spectator.

It is where the space mechanism can be perceived through words and silence, and both of them merge at different phases of interrelations to make up a complex conceptual machinery of surfaces that condense a fabric of layers where the spectator steps in to complement and thus get a deeper perception of the variables I propose within a scheme of strong parameters that are constantly moving; being the body of the actor only one of the many possible focuses.

Acting is always tackled as a search from different spatial and emotional starting points. Explored from the idea of extreme truth, all the poetic resources are undertaken with an economy of gestures, yet in no way can they be absorbed by neutrality, but by an inner body that can increasingly perceive the subtleties, calling for a focus on details.

The intimacy I propose does not only lay in the idea of closeness or the possibility of peeking or shocking, but in the coming together of those mysterious worlds which in the silence of their presences make up the real space of a true event. This is the starting point of the possibility of making visible an imaginary world as the real opportunity to question (through these plays) with our acts, our movements, our feelings and esthetics, the distances we have grown used to and the impoverishment of what we consider possible.

In short, I intend to establish a space for ever-increasingly moving events. Just like the endless possibilities of our human condition. I intend to assign new meaning to the space where we meet to establish new affections among acquaintances and strangers.
Maybe some day all this will happen. In the meantime, utopia becomes reality through an imaginary world; just like when we are dreaming, just like when we see everything in a new light.

Fernando Rubio