La caja de concreto - Cooperation with Lorent Saleh
La Caja de concreto is the result of the cooperation between Raizes and Lorent Saleh, venezuelan human rights defender detained for four years in the torture center of La Tumba and El Helicoide, in the Caracas, from 2014 to 2018.
Lorent Saleh was deported by the SEBIN, from Colombia to Venezuela, and was then held in captivity without being in pretrial detention for 4 year.
He was held in white torture in a room of about 2 meters per 2 meters, with white noise and white walls, with the lights always on, and bound to loose the sense of time, of day and night.
IN 2017 Saleh received the Sakharov Prize for the freedom of thought by the EU Parliament and in 2018 he was rescued by international diplomacy and brought to Madrid, Spain, where he is now residing and working as a human rights defender.
Saleh is also a poet and performer, after presenting the show white torture, he worked with Alessandro Ienzi on La Caja de Concreto, a theater show that includes his personal story and many of the poems that he has been writing during his detention.
The show was presented by Teatro Biondo in Palermo and will be soon released in Paris, Lampedusa, Rome, Bruxelles, Madrid and Barcelona.