
With this work, the Catalonian theatre collective El Conde de Torrefiel expands the boundaries of theatre and installation, creating an immersive experience where sight is transformed into imagination — and imagination into responsibility. “Yo No Tengo Nombre” is a performance installation that invites the audience into an exercise of contemplation and displacement. Presented in the Estufa Fria in Lisbon, this dramatised natural landscape becomes the protagonist: it is both setting and character, narrator and silence. An LED screen appears in this space like a breach — or a caption — that transforms nature into discourse, offering the audience a language that, rather than belonging to the landscape, cuts across it.
The projected text alternates between poetic and prophetic, between fiction and reality, revealing the tense relationship between human beings and their natural origins. What stories does nature tell about us? What fictions feed our perspective on nature? “Yo No Tengo Nombre” proposes a radical reversal of the traditional position of the observer/spectator: what if it were nature that looked at us, named us, interpreted our gestures?
Displayed outside, the LED screen does not explain, it makes things appear. It does not translate, it amplifies. It is a thinking surface that vibrates in contrast with the living silence of the environment. A collective reading of the landscape that becomes a tangible political gesture, shining a light on the imperceptible and on the narrative mechanisms — cultural, historical, mythological — that shape our perception of the natural world.