“Todo la luz del Mediodía” is the second part of the Trilogia do Sol (Sun Trilogy), a long-term project by Julián Pacomio, an artist born in Estremadura and based in Lisbon. Following a dawn that was confused with the end of a rave — in Apocalipse entre amigos ou o dia simplesmente — Pacomio now turns his attention to midday, that highest of hours when the light falls vertically onto the world and everything appears exposed, with no shadow.

In this piece, the solar zenith also summons its opposite: tiredness, torpor, withdrawal. The midday sun not only illuminates — it weighs heavily. It is in that moment that the body abandons verticality and delivers itself to the horizontality of the siesta, like an exhausted donkey that lies down in the shade. The work operates in this transition: from an excess of energy to quietude, from hyper-exposure to erasure.

“Toda la Luz del Mediodía” seeks to bring this solar hour indoors. How can we translate for the theatre a light that is both physical and symbolic? How can we stage a time that, paradoxically, is static and intense? The piece is a choreography of near-nothingness, a look at the body on the point of collapse — between heat and repose, visible and erased.

With this second chapter, Pacomio continues his singular investigation into time, light and the body as a tangible landscape, where the stage becomes a site of radiation and hope.