Lladres/ ladri /ladrones/ thieves… is a video where a message, delivered in several languages, travels via people and spaces in order to eventually reach an unknown recipient. The message in Lladres is verbal; the project is concerned with the voice, voices that belong to individual people, spoken rather than written words, and the sound of those words. Voice is linked to body and place. The characters look at, and speak to, the camera, they never physically meet, they find the voices of others, the images of others, sometimes separated from each other. The video is articulated through close-ups and environments united by voice, which acts as a connecting thread.
Lladres highlights the need for other people, for another who can translate and help convey the message. It suggests that we are not exactly whole, complete, and individual beings, but are part of others, we also form an organism together with other people. Networking already points in this direction, and the pandemic has reinforced this idea.
Today communication appears as a major function of images, and this is the material Lladres works with. It deals with communication as an aesthetic experience, a communication that is successful even if the message that’s received isn’t exactly the same as the message that was sent, because what’s important is the nature of the exchange that’s inherent within the act of communicating.