ENSAYOS DE SANTIDAD

In 'Ensayos de Santidad' (Sainthood Rehearsals or Sainthood Essays), Bonneville created an installation and a one-to-one performance for Matadero's rooftop house. This work's central figure - one who surpasses blood relations - was Goretti: a second mother, a guardian angel, a protector, an absolutely inescapable figure in Bonneville's life and who, with one blow, opened the stagnant and stinking heart of a decrepit bourgeois home. Matadero's rooftop house became an intimate space, a possible refuge from family homes - those haunted houses. It became a spatial, psychological and spiritual place where Bonneville hoped his visitors could use to awaken their undomesticated love, a place where they could be fragile and wounded, and where, together, they could take off together into a nameless night.

Artistic Direction, Texts and Performance: M̶i̶g̶u̶e̶l̶ Bonneville. Costume Design: Mariana Sá Nogueira. Technical Production: Nuno Tomaz. Book Design: Ilhas Studio. Executive Production: Vítor Alves Brotas. Production Direction: Cristina Correia, Susana Martinho Lopes. Co-production: Teatro do Silêncio & Naves Matadero.

Installation
21st - 30th of June 2019, Matadero Madrid, Spain

Performance
5th - 7th of July 2019, Matadero Madrid, Spain

Installation

June 2019

Performance

July 2019