La Grutesca

La Grutesca – Co. Escarlata

The Escarlata company invites us to rediscover the personal relationship we have with laughter and to find out if laughter, and also freedom, are currently in danger

Spontaneous laughter is a sound sculpture, ephemeral and in motion, caused by impulses that shake very hidden muscles of the human anatomy, altering and transforming it. When we laugh, we don’t even know which face we have. It is a cosmic transit and a loss of gravity of rational life; it is an experience that moves towards moments of death in everyday life and transforms us into wiser and more humble ones.

Laughter has as many definitions as there are people in the world; but what is common to all of them is that laughter is loud. Bet Miralta and Jordi Aspa, souls of the company Escarlata, invite us to rediscover the personal relationship we have with laughter and to find out if laughter, and also freedom, are in danger in the current time.

Everything happens in a space with little light. To enter it, you will need to create and exchange objects. Once inside, the sound experiment begins, a journey through the universe of laughter begins. Helium balloons, stones, dancing stairs, gramophones that laugh, self-portraits that gravitate and cigarette papers that dance to the rhythm of a waltz.

The poetic universe that unfolds La grutesca is a very personal reinterpretation of the circus world by Escarlata, a company with a history of more than thirty-five years.