El Conde Torrefiel’s practice crosses theater, choreography, visual arts and literature, building a hybrid language that looks at the present, exploring the relationship between the individual and the collective, the private and the political.

They reject theater as a place for dogmatic statements or closed discourses. According to them, “theater shouldn’t close itself off with declarations, but should open itself up through questions”. It is from this openness that they build scenic devices of strong poetic intensity, where emotion and thought coexist without hierarchy. Their works are marked by a constant restlessness in the face of the present, proposing new ways of inhabiting time and space.

The conversation takes place as part of the inauguration of the installation “Yo No Tengo Nombre”, which will be on display at Lisbon’s Estufa Fria from October 9 to 15, 2025.

Biography
El Conde de Torrefiel is an artistic collective based in Barcelona, made up of Tanya Beyeler and Pablo Gisbert. Their shows combine text, image and performative action in a theater of ideas and sensations that reconstructs the “fourth wall” as a space for active contemplation. They seek to provoke the spectator’s curiosity without directly confronting him, transforming him into an attentive and sensitive witness. Their approach is based on an analysis of language - rational, symbolic and visual - to think about the way we imagine the world, time and contemporary history.
They have presented their work at leading international theaters and festivals, including the Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, where they showed La posibilidad que desaparece frente al paisaje (2016), La Plaza (2018) and were part of the Shared Landscapes project (2023). In 2025, they will premiere Ultraficción N1, continuing their research into fiction, the body and collective perception.