Todo sufrimiento compartido resulta más llevadero

Marta Rodríguez Lázaro will undertake a residency at the Pilar Miró Cultural Center in Vallecas as part of the Cruceiros Paraíso 2023. In this context, she will start working on a project tentatively titled 'All Shared Suffering Is More Bearable' and will attend a training session with the creator and choreographer Poliana Lima at Espacio Tiempo, Madrid.

In the artist's own words, the research will focus on the following:

The pilot name of the project is 'All Shared Suffering Is More Bearable,' a phrase I recently read and believe to be entirely true.

The idea is to create a room on stage. A room that reflects a somewhat furnished corner of my head where things are constantly happening: sometimes more, sometimes less, but something is always going on; more abstract concepts and others more concrete; lots of light and lots of darkness; images that express from inside out and vice versa.
The theme addressed by the piece will be the concept of 'time': dead time, space of time, lived time, past-present-future, verbal time, 'I don't have time,' 'I have too much free time,' tempo, full-time, weather time, geological time, at the same time, ahead of time...

Time measurements are universal yet entirely relative. For example, two people can be walking from point A to point B. The journey takes ten minutes, and both people traverse it at the same speed. One of them is lost in thought, and time flies by; the other was only thinking about reaching their destination and time dragged on for them, but for both, the duration has been exactly the same: ten minutes.

With this piece, I want to delve into the possibilities of time and the elements or factors that participate in its existence: the state of wakefulness, speed, concentration, the space being inhabited, age, mood, and emotions. But of course, time is something that always exists. Do we need to name it for it to be real? Is it infinite? Does it depend on our existence? If we were to become extinct, time would not stop for what remains alive; it would just cease to exist from our perception.

This Cruceiro Paraíso is made possible thanks to the support of the Diputación de A Coruña.