Concrete: polysemic word that designates both a material of construction and as an adjective like a precise. Concrete, as  a material, has the capacity to change from liquid to solid and it supports structures such as houses.

Matter: polysemic word that encapsulates content and form in itself; means subject and material. It sounds just like the Latin word mater, which means mother.

Concrete matter is a game of meanings that has to do with the foundational, with the realm of touch, of the tactile images, deepening in the understanding of the body as a matter (main material), and with our relation with our mothers to elucidate our relationship with pleasure, its unfoldings and revelations when it comes to the performative context. 

The show deals with the mother-daughter relationship, focusing on points of reference and women’s bodies, in this case those of the performers of Los Detectives and those of their mothers, with whom they share the stage. The work is interwoven with layers of references. On one hand, feminist artists of the seventies like Hannah Wilke, Pauline Oliveros and Yvonne Rainer. And on the other hand, the text of Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters, which speaks to us about the impossibility of realization, and made us wonder about our own fulfillment and relationship with our vocation.

Idea, creation and artistic direction: Mariona Naudin, María García Vera, Marina Colomina

Direction: Mariona Naudin 

Performance and cocreation: Marina Colomina, María García Vera, Mariona Naudin, Laia Cabrera, Pepa Martínez Monerri, Pepa Vera, Antona Vicens and Montserrat Lorda. 

External eye: Mònica Almirall

Light design: Daniel Miracle

Sound design and musical composition: Sara Fontán and Edi Pou

Scenography and costume design: Oriol Corral

Production: Haizea Arrizabalaga and Aixa González

Video and web design: Katia Armesto

Support structures: Antic Teatre / OSIC / La Caldera / El Graner

Co-production: Antic Teatre, El Graner, La Caldera, Festival de Dansa Metropolitana