JULIO RUIZ
TOCAR A UN HOMBRE
19.10.2024

With Julio Ruiz, Javier De La Asunción, and the artistic accompaniment of Ernesto Artillo.

"I seem very sure, don't I? Nothing worries me, I don't doubt, nothing makes me doubt, I don't break, I don't cry, as if the possibility of fracture doesn't exist in me. You've seen me dance and you know how strong I am. Accurate, fierce even, hard, devastating my steps, don't they seem so to you? You have seen the beauty. You think nothing breaks me, don't you? The touch, the sight, the smell, the laughter, the life. Everything breaks me, undresses me, kills me, wounds me. I can't touch. I don't know how to love. I freeze at the thought of touching you. I worry about touching a man. Even if there are flowers. You think you know how they smell, how beautiful they are. But even if there are flowers, man cries, don't you hear? Even if there are flowers, man dies, don't you see me? Even if there are flowers, there is blood. (...) Yes, I am a man. All those men, even if I don't know how to touch any of them".
Aunque haya flores, el hombre muere, ¿no me ves? Aunque haya flores, hay sangre.
(…) Sí, soy un hombre. Todos esos hombres, Aunque no sepa tocar a ninguno de ellos»

Photos: Archivo Aceitera

This project was made possible thanks to the collaboration of Ayuntamiento de Bollullos, El Mandaito Producciones and each member of our association La Aceitera.