El Conde de Torrefiel

What defines us as human beings? This question is the point of departure for Lexikon, the latest production by El Conde de Torrefiel, a work centred upon the following idea: the spoken word as a flow of a vital kind, and creator of worlds. Like an underground current, it is in a constant process of motion and transformation.

The Spanish company El Conde de Torrefiel takes over the 7L library, Karl Lagerfeld’s former photography studio, for a site-specific new work. It stages, in this space, matter of a textual, visual and sound-based kind designed as a scenic study for a piece in the making.

A picnic, disappearances, and an open, unsolved mystery: the Italian duo DOM- plunge the spectator headlong into the vaporous atmosphere of Picnic at Hanging Rock by Peter Weir. In doing so, they bring up to date, and situate in the present day, its critique of Australia’s colonial bourgeoisie.