María Jerez, SESSION 01

As part of the Special: Garden of Hyenas, María Jerez presents SESSION 01, the first in a series of performances that begin with a range of shamanic and witchcraft practices that work with the hidden on a plane of immanence. ¨ Drawing on these practices, I train the palms of my hands so that a process of visualisation can take place between them. My palm gradually reveals an image that is invisible yet perceptible, taking shape as it is touched: a vision that is not optical but tactile. These images, based on the perception of emerging details, do not belong to the realm of the finished. Rather, they are visions closer to a dream, where scale and boundaries remain undefined or rooted in the impossible.¨

María Jerez works across choreography, film and the visual arts. In recent years, her work has focused on opening up spaces of potential through encounters with what we perceive as strange or foreign, insisting on the encounter's performative nature as a space for transformation. In this process, the other (the strange, the foreign) settles into the familiar, the everyday and the self, blurring the boundaries between self and other and suspending the distinction between subject and object. The aim is to locate difference within oneself, moving away from the affirmation of identity and, through the pieces she has created, proposing spaces of fragility and processes of disidentification.

Duration: 60 minutes.

Capacity: 144 people.

Audience: General audience. Children aged 7 and over must be accompanied by an adult.

Garden of Hyenas

Special Ticket for all activities (except children's workshops and the tasting): €30 / Individual Ticket: €10.