The ‘Museum to Come’ opens its doors at Espacio Muégano Teatro to commemorate the death of Jaime Roldós and other political victims

If there poetic justice can replenish what the institutional justice no then he playwright Santiago Roldós dares to try it. The Mancomunidad Muégano Theater, which Roldós co-directs, inaugurated the Friday October 22 a collaborative exhibition in the Magallanes alley (Rocafuerte between Tomás Martínez and Imbabura), which commemorates the victims of political repression and specifically the death of President Jaime Roldós and Martha Bucaram, his parents, on the fateful presidential trip of May 24, 1981, does exactly 40 years.

Video and audio files 1979 to 1981, historical documents (such as the Riobamba Charter of Conduct of 1980), and the participation of artists, researchers, students and more guests in charge of talks and debates about democracy in America, workshops, performances, readings and theater games, among other expressions, make up this initiative, which has been called Museum to come, open to the public until November 2.

Among them are the Mexican theaters Rubén Ortiz and Ricardo Andrade; the filmmaker Manolo Sarmiento (The death of Jaime Roldós); visual artists Oswaldo Terreros and Gabriela Cabrera; activists Víctor García and Cristina Burneo; the ecuadorian band lolabum, among others. The projection of the films of the Chilean filmmaker and documentary maker is also highlighted. Patricio guzman (The battle of Chile).

“The idea of ​​making a Museum, even though we are people from theater, is the expansion of a interdisciplinary dialogue of artists”In search of a symbolic repair, illustrates Roldós, who explains that this proposal is part of the manifestation known as the ‘expanded scene’. It’s about a deeply political theater”, Says the actor who is also looking for dynamics so that the viewer stop being a taxable person of the work, but interact and, above all, that propose other reflections about her.

And that is the intention of this baptized museum To come, “because is what we want the present to beWe are interested in the past to ask ourselves what of that past continues to affect us ”.

In its version itinerant, Santiago took part of the exhibition to Zapotillo (where the president and the first lady were going), Celica-Huairapungo (where they crashed) and Saraguro (where it is said that his remains fell), in Store. On this trip he experienced precisely what he calls “a cultural exchange” when the locals held a healing ceremony and a traditional dance, in exchange for the projection of the film on the death of the ruler. This experience illustrates a bit the notion of expanded theater referred to by the artist.

“Can’t heal alone, healing is community ”, concludes Santiago Roldós. “We are a country without much justice and we are investigating devices with which we can do ourselves justice, like this project … To stop feeling victims and assume our role as survivors”.