Here one enters more restless that Piqué every time a new Shakira song comes out. You still don’t know very well if you have gotten into a ‘squid game’ white label, in a Kubrick movie or at a partyEyes wide shut‘. As you arrive they give you mask, jumpsuit, gloves, boot covers. In 5 minutes you become a completely anonymous. Nobody recognizes you, nobody can guess who you are, as happened to that M. Rajoy. You can be you without thinking about what they will say. Can you be you without thinking about what they will say? You leave your cell phone and autopilot. They put you in a room among others 200 masked strangers. “Are you going to be honest?” a voice-over asks. “What happens here, stays here”, they guarantee you like in Las Vegas.
“Do you dare to be real?”, they have been inciting for days on networks. It just premiered in Europe’Real Self‘. “The first immersive experience in total anonymity”, guarantees its ideologue. It is a ‘show’ where the participants masked they are the protagonists. A show-experience-experiment. Hour and a quarter without prejudice.
At times it seems like a partyat times a collective psychoanalysishas even served as Tinder. “Many have fallen in love at the show, even if they don’t know who,” says Jabo. There are those who have been reunited through instagram from ‘Real Self’. There are those who even he has rethought his life. “There have been people who realized that they no longer wanted to work at what they were working on and the next day I quit”.
Ten minutes talking to him and you feel like lying on a couch. Javier –Jabo- Drucaroff He is Argentine and a therapist. “My wife and my mother are psychologists,” he adds. He is the creator and director of ‘Real Self‘. Traveled artist,’show designer‘, 37 years. The same thing tells you about immersive technology that reminds you of giant 10-meter manta rays. Since he was 18 he invented “transformative experiences”. Now they look for him on Instagram to ask him for advice. “‘Real Self –details- it is the sum of a lot of things that mobilized me, they shocked me“They transformed me for the better throughout my life.”
He plans to become the Halloween costume most recurring this year. Participants can take home the mask and monkey. “It happened in Buenos Aires,” Jabo smiles. There he has become a freak after three seasons and some 50,000 participants. “There is 50,000 masks going around Buenos Aires – his ideologue laughs -. Various profiles Tinder They take photos with her. And many people leave it on in the car, on the headrest.”
Reminds you of the boss villain’s mask ‘The squid game’. “Ours is previous” -Jabo promises-. “Due to the pandemic we had to stop.” He based it on a generic internet design. He modified it until everyone found it comfortable. “He would walk down the street with two or three models – he remembers – and when he saw someone with a special face, he would ask them to try them on,” he laughs.
‘Real Self’ was inaugurated in Barcelona last weekend with two days of ‘sold out’ and 1,200 spectators. It is one of the plans with which the new macrospace has been launched Immersed of Poblenou. At access 3 (Badajoz, 72), they give you masks and jumpsuits. When you go out, your partner tells you that he needs further space? You point to the street Lull (119). This is where you enter the new exposure ‘Space Discovery‘. You can come across meteorites, get dizzy somewhere space module and even weigh you in one cosmic scale. The new excuse of tiktokers to continue on the moon.
It’s hard to explain ‘Real Self’ without making ‘spoilers’. The surprise It’s part of the ‘show’. What can be told? There is a room with ‘mapping‘, surround music, 200 anonymous people of pristine white. A voice-over begins to pose questions and dynamics that put the tip masks. At first you are more uncomfortable than the king when asking Pedro Sánchez to form a Government. Then he feels everything: shame, concernBut what is this? Surprise, modesty, chill on the back of the neck, now you smile, now you dance, you feel euphoria, ecstasy, liberation, even butterflies in your stomach. In the ‘premier’ of Barcelona –they say-, a boy and a girl they fell in love with their masks on: They looked for each other on the way out, found each other somehow, and kissed before the open mouths of the organizers.
“For me it is a device to feel”, Jabo tries to summarize. “It is up to each person how much they dare to open to feel –he points out-. The volume is managed by each participant.” Some don’t let go even with a mask. “Nobody is obligated to anything –guarantees the artist-. There are as many ‘Real Self’ as there are people who participate.”
“It’s really about writing a book. And at some point we will,” he snorts. Barby Esses, general coordinator of the experience. How she and Jabo met would need a separate article. Also have famous anecdotes. “Having lived the anonymity “For a while it was incredible,” the singer told them. Sebastian Yatra-. I received the most genuine hug I’ve felt in recent years, because that person didn’t know who I was. He really hugged me”.
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“Is a experience which can be very revealing”, confesses a masked woman today after the ‘show’. “You realize things that you had never considered before.” “With the mask – says another anonymous person – you are more you than ever”.
It is also revealing post-‘show’: the conversation that is generated after the function. “People come out eager to share what happened to them,” Jabo agrees. “One of my best friends, married for 12 years, told me that it was the first time in their relationship that they talked about certain topics.” The morale? “Putting on a mask – summary – helps you get rid of a lot of masks”.