Psicofonía

Mid 1970s. With Franco dead, Spain was moving cautiously towards democracy. In the name of reconciliation, an amnesty law decreed equality of memories, i.e. general amnesia. Forgotten were the crimes of Francoism, the civil war and the anti-fascist struggle. Born into a family of exiled Spanish republicans, Faustine Noguès is heir to both this history and this amnesia. Little by little, she is rediscovering this buried memory. Recovering the past is a battle: you have to listen to the survivors, but also to the people who have disappeared. You have to move forward, all ears, among the spectres. Using binaural sound, the actress plunges us into her own head, involving us in her search. She lets us hear the repressed stories, the forbidden voices. Over the course of the show, the memorial space she draws takes on the dimensions of a country.