Bio

Helena Mateos-Serna (Mallorca, 2001) is a scenographer. She has a degree in Dramatic Arts from Institut del Teatre specialising in Scenography and has worked as a scenic designer with Carlota Subirós, Andrés Corchero and Guillem Sánchez. She did work experience with scenographer Xesca Salvà in the Fabià Puigserver auditorium at Teatre Lliure on the production Una illa by the company Sr. Serrano for Festival Grec 2023. She also worked as a graphic recorder for the Institut del Teatre during the Prague Quadrennial 2023. Interested in architecture, cinema, fine art, design and cuisine, she is doing a postgraduate degree in Technology and Digital Scenography at Institut del Teatre and believes installation is a great tool for telling stories and connecting people.

Project

Partida is a board game being developed. To play, twelve people meet and take on the role of their player: twelve workers exhuming a mass grave on Mallorca. Their goal is to work together and unearth a series of pieces (parts of a face and various objects) from sandy areas, which tell stories about their former owners while also combining to create a face: one of the twelve women executed by fascists during the Civil War, who are the focus of this game.