The new version of "Roi Soleil" by Albert Serra at the Tamayo Museum

The Tamayo Museum presents, from March 23 to June 4, Roi Soleil, the first solo exhibition in Mexico by self-taught director, screenwriter and producer Albert Serra (Banyoles, 1975). Influenced by literary characters and the aesthetic mechanisms of cinema from the sixties and seventies, Serra recovers in his practice the fantasy of the beginnings of cinematography with solemn themes and characters - delirious and absurd - that distance themselves from the representation of everyday life .

Based on the film The Death of Lluís XIV (2016), Albert Serra created Roi Soleil, a performance that embodies the agony of Lluís XIV through the interpretation of a non-professional actor who, dressed in 'epoka, invites the public to be part of this post-conceptual production. Serra, his film crew and performer Lluís Serrat will use the museum space as a set for the on-site filming and production of Roi Soleil.

For 6 days Serra will produce and film a new version of Roi Soleil in the halls of the Tamayo Museum. Once this period is over, the material filmed daily by the artist will be edited and projected in room 1, from March 30 to June 4, 2023. Meanwhile, in room 2 the equipment that was part of the performance.

Through a unique visual language and a non-linear narrative, the work addresses complex themes such as death and decrepitude in an alien place - in this case, the empty museum room -, where there is the testimony of a a kind of encounter between the representation of power and its vanity.

The exhibition, curated by Lena Solà Nogué, will be accompanied by a series of screenings in the museum's auditorium, as well as a lecture given by Serra himself, conceived as part of the museum's public program.