Never speak of what does not concern you, lest you hear things you do not like.
(Arabian nights)

“It all began in 2015 in Malabo, capital of Equatorial Guinea, a former Spanish colony devastated by imperialism, where I went to develop a dance project. Bekristen, which means ‘Christians’ in the Fang language, was born out of a strong spiritual, personal crisis, but also of our time. Human evolution, understood from the perspective of techno-economic prosperity, leaves us in the midst of a strange landscape, intoxicated by consumption and waste, tyrannised by the dictatorship of happiness and eternal youth, where the idea of neighbour fades into that of user. In this hyper-connected global world, how can we love today, what can we do in the face of the pain of others? As in the triptychs of Bosch, Brueghel, Van der Wayden or Bacon, I try to paint stages, milestones or transits of the human soul: La domesticación (The domestication), Somos la guerra (We are the war), La buena obra (The good work) or, as Bataille would say: eroticism, work and death. La domesticación (The domestication) premiered in 2019, co-produced by Teatros del Canal in Madrid. Somos la guerra (We are the war) premiered in 2021, co-produced by the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Conde Duque”. (Luz Arcas)

The complete triptych, with the first two chapters revisited and the third, La buena obra (The good work), premiered in the Autumn at the Festival in Madrid in November 2022, at the Teatros del Canal, and has the support of the Teatro Central in Seville and the Graner Centre de Creació in Barcelona. In Bekristen / Tríptico de la Prosperidad (Bekristen / Triptych of Prosperity), the three shows are performed one after the other (with two brief intermissions for technical and set changes visible to the audience), in an unparalleled immersive experience in Luz Arcas / La Phármaco’s most contemporary and large-format work.