Tinieblas

Tinieblas is a performance in which the audience gets lost, is found again, and gets lost once more. The theatre becomes the centre of an area, a place with its own geographical coordinates. At the same time, the spectators form a single, distinct body in motion, like the murmur of starlings. It is a sensory experience that constantly maintains the tension between inside and outside, between the slow pace of a walking human and the dizzying speed of the imagination, capable of teleporting us in the blink of an eye.

• As a visual artist working with a wide range of media and formats, Edurne Rubio (Burgos, 1974) presents her work in a variety of contexts: in theatres, film festivals, exhibitions, and public spaces. She creates situations that generate tension between what we see and what we hear, moving within them between the present, memory, and imagination. With her strong fascination for oral storytelling, she constructs collective narratives from individual stories, offering a subjective reading of history – one shaped by emotion, in constant flux.

Her new work for the theatre, Tinieblas (2026), builds on the research she conducted in A Nublo (2021), performances about natural phenomena created in collaboration with artist Maria Jerez, as well as in Light Years Away (2016), about the darkness of caves, which she has presented in a variety of European theatres, including Kaaitheater.

During the making of Tinieblas, Edurne Rubio made a film called Los huesos no flotan (2026), which was shown at Wiels as part of Europalia España.