Obras Rotas

Description

This body of work traces a vital journey. Plants, blindness, a shoe shop that resembles dreams, figures orbiting the sacred, the boundary between the real and its artifice. Pablo Messiez’s works never seem to rest in comfort—nothing is entirely what it appears, nothing is too stable, everything is on the verge of transformation. In order to move forward, the writing draws from poetry, painting, biography, and cultural peripheries. The characters emerge as endearing and, at the same time, reveal their reverse side, their seams, warning us: what we see is fiction, an irreverent celebration of the imagination. There is, in these works, an accumulated power that has given rise to beautiful, unforgettable performances.

Along this journey, one can perceive much more than the development of an active way of understanding dramaturgy. Each of these works is, sometimes enigmatically, sometimes more directly, an act of faith. Pablo inhabits the theater, explores it like few others, hesitates, affirms, and insolently pushes its limits, stretching language and stories, unsettling forms. He fervently believes in what is written and also in its transcendence, betting on that sublime and fleeting moment that consumes the stage in every performance. Those of us who have seen Pablo’s shows have felt the vertigo of witnessing something unsettling. Someone is thinking theater in its entirety. Reading these works, we feel privileged to be part of the Messiez experience—a form of writing that bears witness to an explosion.

Santiago Loza