The very first idea we wanted to explore visually came from the proposition of the work itself, since it was requested that the spectator was more or less independent. That being said, we decided to research and find visual forms of expression of that relationship between what is expected and decided by the audience and, in this case, what is designed by the scenographer.
Therefore, we went with an approach that tends to break the orthodox fictional code of time and space while in the room, but also persisting outside.
This means that Optical Fiction works as a visual experiment of light, sound and projection — which was asked from us and very much of our interest —, and also as a means to an almost subverted end.
The spectator walks a green room that has little clues of real limits, where sound is reduced to 60 Hertz — an alienating sound, after a while.
The green room is an independent space, but also an ante-chambre, the place of what-is-to-come and, ultimately an independent fiction. It's full potencial is reached when we leave the green room.
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