“skinSITEs XIII: memento mori” transports Alicia Soto’s site-specific series to Barcelona’s Mercat de les Flors, a building originally intended as the Agricultural Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition, later converted into a wholesale flower market and, since 1983, a theatre. The piece celebrates its reopening following its recent renovation and transforms the history of the place—a continuous cycle of uses, beauty, and decay—into a staged reflection on impermanence: everything blooms and everything dies.
The proposal fuses contemporary dance and video creation to embody the classic idea of memento mori Through contemporary languages. Body, projection, and architecture intertwine, transforming the building's skin into a narrative surface. In this installment, Alicia Soto shares the stage with multimedia creator Hiroko Tanashaki, continuing a project that has already come to life in twelve cities across Europe and Asia and which, once again, transforms space into a protagonist and a living memory of movement.
The 13th version of the “SkinSites” series, which is made specifically for a space, will take place in Barcelona within the Mercat de les Flors. The theater was built as the "Agriculture Pavilion" for the Barcelona International Exposition in 1929. After the exposition, the building was used as a wholesale flower market, until in 1983 it was converted into a theater.
“skinSITEs XIII” is entitled “memento mori” to celebrate the reopening of the recently renovated “Mercat de les Flors” theater. The history of the building is the history of transitory matter: the international exhibition, the flower market, the dance and the theater, its existence can be perceived only for a limited time – everything is bound to die, all beauty is limited to time. The classical-artistic idea of mortality will be brought to contemporary media – video, both with contemporary movement and choreography.
«skinSITEs» has been one of the most successful approaches with the aim of uniting the theater to a specific space thanks to multimedia.
12 cities from 9 countries in Europe and Asia have made versions for a wide range of buildings and their histories. And in this version, as in version XII, the protagonist is once again the choreographer and dancer Alicia Soto, together with the collaboration with Hiroko Tanashaki, artistic and multimedia director.
Choreography and Performance: Alicia Soto
Artistic and Multimedia Direction: Hiroko Tanashaki
Concept and Creation: Alicia Soto and Hiroko Tanashaki
…The best multimedia show ever produced in Castile and León. Never before has such a perfect and conceptually rich symbiosis been achieved, as in this brief but intense work. It created a feeling of restlessness and tranquility, yet total freedom, in the audience, who applauded warmly.
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