Seppuku. El funeral de Mishima

Hagakure, “in the shadow of the leaves,” is the spiritual code of the samurai that deeply inspired Yukio Mishima. His philosophy combined eroticism, beauty, and death as an inseparable trinity. For him, dying every day in thought freed him from the fear of death. His novel The Golden Pavilion revealed to the author that beauty could be an enemy capable of destroying everything with its intensity.

Angélica Liddell’s new show will attempt to be a tribute to suicide understood as an avant-garde act, born from an extreme desire to live and a sensitivity beyond all judgment. In this way, seppuku will become a poem, a transfer of the desire to die from the spirit to the body, and proof that only through sex and death does the body transcend and life finds meaning in its extinction.

On the 50th anniversary of his ritual suicide, this show will be a tribute by Angélica Liddell to the figure and thought of Mishima, after having premiered the shows Vudú (3318), Blixen, and Caridad at the festival. With the premiere of Seppuku. El funeral de Mishima, three of Angélica Liddell’s last four shows will have premiered at Temporada Alta.