Zero
“Zero” is that which precedes everything, or what remains when everything has ceased. An origin and a final threshold at the same time. It was the exit from my mother's body, and my entrance into this world.
My mouth is that threshold where words attempt to be born. My throat, my stomach, resonate with their ghost. Breath that burns like a fire, prior to language.
“Zero” as an attempt to capture the intangible, to outline the human desire to make a world through matter. A gesture that stumbles at the very edge of meaning, showing the impossibility of grasping that which, like liquid, slips through the fingers.
Conceived as an installation, the piece is a poetic exploration where the body is a living, mutable language, a surface that folds over itself, overflowing its meanings. The performer inhabits the space as a fragmentary archive: a body full of gaps, tensions, and desires in the process of reconfiguration. A sensitive landscape as an organism that thinks, listens, and is affected by itself. This body coexists with a constellation of speculative objects as vestiges of a non-linear time. Memories inscribed of an extinct language, or one still to come.
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Credits
Created and performed by Manuel Rodriguez
Installation, images and light: Manuel Rodriguez
Supervision: Darko Dragicevic
Supported by Stockholm University of the Arts, Barcelona Institute of Culture, Graner Dance and Performing Arts Creation Center, Elamor,
Spanish Embassy in Sweden, Nau Ivanou Barcelona.
Special thanks and eternal love to Aurora, my mother.
Bio
Manuel Rodríguez was born in Úbeda, Spain. He is a dancer, choreographer, and visual artist whose work has been presented in museums, festivals, and institutions across Europe and Asia. His trajectory includes international awards, as well as collaborations with renowned artists and platforms within the contemporary dance and visual arts scenes.
He has developed a broad range of works, including stage pieces, installations, sitespecific projects, videos, photography exhibitions, and editorial publications.
