Lorent Saleh is a Venezuelan and human rights defender. In 2014, he was arrested after he began an intl.’ campaign to denounce human rights violations during anti-government protests in Venezuela.
Due to his human rights activism, he was imprisoned for 4 years, 2 months and 7 days spending more than 2 in isolation in Venezuelan secret service prison “La Tumba” located in Caracas, five floors underground.
In 2017, Lorent and the Venezuelan democratic opposition were awarded the Sakharov Prize Freedom of Thought by the European Parliament.
His performance “White Torture - Underground poetry” takes us into the intimate soliloquy of a political prisoner in isolation who faces invisble torturers. The element of invisibility is central in contemporary forms of torture because it leaves no marks on the body but acts on the senses, on the perception of time and the psychological vulnerability of the detainee, but is no less devastating for this.
We’ve asked Lorent when was the exact moment he began to feel the need to translate this period of his life into an artistic experience and share it with the public, and how he interpreted, staged and transmitted this feature of invisibility to the audience through his theatre performance.
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