DIOS

DIOS (God) is an automatic theatre play divided into eight dioramas synchronized by a digital brain. These dioramas or models are turned on and off as the play progresses, the audience follows the plot by moving from diorama to diorama in an immersive experience. We see each Teatrino light up with a set of synchronized LEDs in a loudspeaking radio play, in which we hear the voices of three characters: Liv, God, and Paulina united in a heretical duel. Liv is convinced that she has become God’s girlfriend; he himself called to announce it. Her friend Paulina tries to persuade her to subject God to a series of tests, as this is the only way she will be sure whether God is God, God is good, or whether God is good for anything, which would sum up to the same question about why or how to believe in anything; 

Liv subjects God to increasingly worse tests, which include hitting him, cutting off parts of his body, crashing him into a car, and asking him theological questions. The play unfolds as God’s true and terrible personality is revealed. The protagonists, united in their search for some form of revelation, become blinded, as we learn less and less about God: he is so human that he can only be divine. The result is inconclusive, as faith must be, since that is the essence of believing itself: we believe because we have to believe.

Installation consisting of eight cardboard Teatrini of 50cm x 70cm, LEDs, Arduino programming, sound file, 39 minutes in a loop.

With : Pablo Katchadjian, Denise Goldman, Marcela Sinclair, Ulises Ribunisch, Melina Dorfman, Mia Micceli, Vil Schulman, Miguel Garutti.

This piece was part of the show Todo es Prestado (Everything is borrowed) at Piedras galeria, Buenos Aires, Argentina.2025. Ph: Tirco Matute.