Luces de Pandemia (Pandemic Lights, 2020) is a metaphor about the COVID-19 crisis in Spain produced through the poetic observation of burning flames - part of the monument honouring those who have lost their lives during this period - against the deformed backdrop of Madrid's arquitectural heritage. The title of this experimental video references Bohemian Lights (1920), written by spanish dramaturg Valle-Inclán, to draw a parallel line between the birth of Esperpento as a literary genre, characterised by its grotesque deformation of reality using words, and its contemporary manifestation as an unprecedented economic, socio-political and sanitary crisis.
'A hundred years of Esperpento: Bohemian Lights in the pandemic era', published by The Diplomat in Spain (12/2020)