La Luz Que Nos Ciega

I wanted to love heaven and earth, their exploits and their fevers and I have found nothing which failed to remind me of death: flowers, stars, faces, symbols of withering, potential slabs of all possible tombs!

Antonio Guerra takes the concept of Nature as a starting point to address the dissociation Myth / Science and creates a story that speaks of universal themes such as death, illness, and pain. La Luz Que Nos Ciega [The Light That Blinds Us] calls upon the natural environment of inland Spain’s rural areas as a symbolic space for reflection to trace a journey through science fictions, dead myths, reason, and emotion, in a search for the frictions between natural and cultural space.

In contrast to the bucolic, idealised view of the countryside and its processes, detached from the actual lifestyle in rural areas, here we encounter a claustrophobic atmosphere, an extreme representation of nature’s workings that analyses territory through disaster. Hallucinatory landscapes, wounded animals, and characters drifting between two different times shape a land brimming with traces and absences.

La Luz Que Nos Ciega is an encounter with the author’s biography in which the concepts of memory, death, and rupture echo through each decision leading to its creation.

The project was published in 2022 by Dalpine and La Kusala publishers.