Lola Arias
Born (1976-12-03) 3 December 1976
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alma materUniversity of Buenos Aires
Occupation(s)Actress, director, writer
AwardsKonex Award (2014)
Websitelolaarias.com

Lola Arias (born 3 December 1976) is an Argentine actress, writer, and film and theater director.[1]

Biography

Lola Arias studied literature at the University of Buenos Aires, dramaturgy at the School of Dramatic Art, and theater with Ricardo Bartís and Pompeyo Audivert. She also studied dramaturgy in London at the Royal Court Theatre[2] and in Madrid at the Casa de América. She founded the Postnuclear Company, an interdisciplinary group of artists with whom she develops various theater, literature, music, and visual arts projects. She composes music for their works with Ulises Conti.[3][4]

Her work is wide and varied, including literature, theater, poetry, music, performances, films, and stories in Argentine magazines and newspapers. She collaborates with artists from different disciplines on art, music, and film projects. Her compositions cross the border between fiction and reality. In collaboration with the Swiss artist Stefan Kaegi she developed documentary theater projects such as Chácara Paraíso and Airport Kids.[1][3]

In theater, Arias has incorporated not only actors into her work, but also policemen, beggars, dancers, prostitutes, musicians, children, and animals. In her play Striptease (2007), the protagonist is a one-year-old baby;[5] in El amor es un francotirador (2008), a rock band plays live while the actors tell love stories; in Mi vida después (2009), six young people reconstruct, from letters, photos, used clothes, cassettes, etc., the youth of their parents in the 1970s.[6]

Her texts have been translated into seven languages and presented at festivals around the world, such as Steirischer Herbst in Graz, Festival d'Avignon, Theater Spektakel in Zurich, We are Here in Dublin, Spielart Festival in Munich, Alkantara Festival in Lisbon, Radicals Festival in Barcelona, Under the Radar Festival in New York,[7] and in art spaces such as Red Cat LA, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis,[8] and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

The Square (2017 film)

Arias was not involved in creating the film's titular work, and publicly denounced director Ruben Östlund for using her name without her consent.[9] Östlund initially denied the allegation, saying that she had agreed to it and was misremembering their interaction. He provided proof of the veracity of his story in the form of an interview he conducted with Lola Arias about the creation of The Square.[10][11][12]

However, in March 2023, Östlund's production company released a public apology: [13]

We understand that the use of Lola Arias’ name, which was not discussed as clearly as it should have been, created a misunderstanding connecting her work as an artist to the artwork The Square shown in the film. All reference to the artist Lola Arias as the creator of the artwork is fictional. We would like to offer an apology to Lola Arias for the way her name was used in the fiction film The Square.

— Plattform Produktion

Works

  • Las impúdicas en el paraíso (poetry collection, 2000)
  • La escuálida familia (theater, performed at the Teatro Rojas, 2001)
  • Estudios de la memoria amorosa (theater, performed at the Centro Experimental del Colón, 2003)
  • Poses para dormir (theater, 2004)
  • Trilogy Striptease, Sueño con revólver, and El amor es un francotirador (theater, Ed. Entropía, 2004)[5]
  • El amor es un francotirador (album of music together with Ulises Conti, 2007)
  • Familienbande (theater, 2009)
  • Mi nombre cuando yo ya no exista (theater, Ed. Cierto Pez, Chile, 2009)
  • That enemy with in (theater, 2010)
  • Los posnucleares (book of short stories, Ed. Emecé, 2011)
  • Los que no duermen (album of music together with Ulises Conti, 2011)
  • Melancolía y Manifestaciones (theater, 2012)
  • El año en que nací (theater, 2012)[7]
  • El arte de hacer dinero (theater, inspired by The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht, 2013)[4]
  • Mis documentos (cycle of performance lectues, 2012, 2013, 2014)

Filmography

Director

  • Teatro de guerra (2018)[14]

Actress

  • Cien pesos (2003, short)
  • Potestad as Adriana's mother (2003)
  • La prisionera as Isabel (2006)[15]
  • Historias extraordinarias as Alicia (2008)

Awards and recognitions

  • 2014 Konex Award Diploma of Merit as one of the five most important figures in Argentine letters in the discipline "Teatro: Quinquenio 2009–2013"[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Lola Arias" (in Spanish). Konex Foundation. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "Lola Arias". Royal Court Theatre. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Lola Arias" (in Spanish). Alternativa Teatral. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  4. 1 2 Vallejos, Soledad (13 July 2013). "Lola Arias: 'La ciudad te entrena para ser indiferente'" [Lola Arias: 'The City Trains You to Be Indifferent']. La Nación (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 31 December 2013. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  5. 1 2 "Lola Arias y su trilogía, en el Espacio Callejón". La Nación (in Spanish). 8 September 2007. Archived from the original on 28 October 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  6. ↑ Soto, Ivanna (23 September 2011). "Lola Arias: El teatro es una experiencia y no un espectáculo'" [Lola Arias: 'Theater is an Experience and Not a Spectacle']. Ñ (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2 December 2011. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  7. 1 2 La Rocco, Claudia (12 January 2014). "Talking About Their (Iron-Fisted) Generation". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  8. ↑ "Lola Arias: The Year I Was Born". Walker Art Center. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  9. ↑ "Lola Arias: 'The Square' director Ruben Östlund stole my name". Dagens Nyheter. 15 February 2018. Archived from the original on 15 February 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  10. ↑ Schons, Donna (October 2, 2020). ""Ich wurde wie Dreck behandelt": Künstlerin Lola Arias geht gegen die Satire "The Square" vor". Monopol (in German).
  11. ↑ "Artist Lola Arias Fires Allegation At The Square". Nordic Drama. 22 February 2018. Archived from the original on 10 August 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  12. ↑ "Lola Arias Files Lawsuit Against The Square". NORDIC DRAMA. 18 August 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
  13. ↑ Karen K. Ho (March 28, 2023). "Award-Winning Director's Production Company Apologizes to Artist Referenced in 'The Square'". ARTNews.
  14. ↑ "Teatro de guerra". Berlin International Film Festival. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  15. ↑ "La Prisionera". Berlin International Film Festival. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
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