Donde empieza el bosque acaba el pueblo
Donde empieza el bosque acaba el pueblo (Where the forest begins, the village ends) is the second project by the collective Monte Isla. Following the research for Allí donde noestamos (Where we are not), the first piece of the company, this research focuses making doing theater without bodies on stage. The objective is to work from the expressiveness of technique (light, sound and machinery) and the visual elements (objects, space, materials) for the creation of a theater piece.
Donde empieza el bosque acaba el pueblo was born with the idea of materialising in scenic form the tensions that Edward Hopper expresses in a series of canvases painted in Cape Cod. The painter deals with the relationship between civilisation and nature, obviously in his particular language and influenced by his historical context. Monte Isla sees in these paintings a portrait of postmodern humanity. In them the human figures appear as objects in a house, in a passive attitude towards this nature. As if they were only spectators of this pictorial universe, the way of relating to their environment turns them into foreigners in the landscape, lonely in their human condition.
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