Museo de los relámpagos

Production by Shaday Larios and Jomi Oligor, who write and direct a fantastical small-scale architecture built from objects found in museum storerooms and collections. It is staged in the Sala de la Princesa at the Teatro María Guerrero.

The production imagines the museum as a territory of fantasy, memory and critique. On stage, automata, analogue machines, object theatre and display cases turned into passageways make up a journey in which the pieces seem to awaken and claim their own history.

The starting point is a research project carried out by El Solar, Agencia de Detectives de Objetos, a collective created in 2014 that has worked with communities and institutions, listening to stories and emotional bonds linked to objects from other times and places. That field material gives shape to a kind of museum of museums built from documentary-style object theatre and an animist perspective.

The show questions how heritage institutions classify, conserve and display their collections, and champions the biographies of objects, their ties to communities and the stories that are left outside the display cases.