Las Tres Gracias is a site-specific, operatic installation that reexamines western civilization’s myth of democracy and the architecture and role of the theater as both a political and pedagogical experiment. Drawing inspiration from ancient cosmologies and Third World vision, the work explores the cyclical nature of destruction and renewal within the context of ongoing imperialism and the normalization of contemporary forms of fascism.

The project takes its name from a missing neoclassical sculpture, Las Tres Gracias—which once stood in the botanical gardens of Buenos Aires—and the subsequent search for it. This sculpture depicts the three daughters of the Greek god Zeus, believed to bestow beauty, mirth and grace upon humanity. Utilizing the structure of Greek tragedy as a point of departure, Las Tres Gracias incorporates sound, video, sculpture, light, and text, to create a sensory landscape that reflects on the absurdity, beauty, and brutality of existence.