Pieles

Pieles emerges from the dialogue between the female body, camera, and territory. From the very beginning, it was essential for us to start from the personal and the intimate: family stories, inherited memories, and the experiences that live within the body. From this intimate place, the project gradually expanded into a collective dimension, allowing us to observe a shared historical wound and, through the creative act, imagine its potential healing.

Veracruz is a central axis in the development of this work. Not only because it is the birthplace of its creators, but because of the profound historical weight it carries. As one of the first ports of the Americas and the territory through which Europe first entered what is now Mexico, Veracruz represents the beginning of a forced cultural fusion, marked by war, dispossession, and pain. These wounds did not remain in the past; they were passed down through generations, particularly through women's bodies, as explored in Pieles.

We chose to speak primarily through image and symbol. While verbal language exists, we trust that the body and the image have the power to transcend words. Pieles was constructed through delicate layers, gradually overlapping gestures, movements, atmospheres, and memories until forming the project as a whole. The script did not precede the body; it emerged from it. Choreography became the starting point for accessing the interpreters' living sensations and memories, and little by little, the images that shape this surreal world began to appear.

Ultimately, Pieles seeks to listen to history as told through the living voice of a Veracruz born female body, one that carries within it the experiences of mothers, daughters, and grandmothers. A body that remembers, that aches, and that, through movement, attempts to heal the lineage inscribed on its skins.