WE_SELLE draws its inspiration from Stanisław Wyspiański’s landmark 1901 Polish drama Wesele (The Wedding) — a work that used the ceremony of a wedding as a piercing examination of Polish national identity, social division, and collective self-deception. More than a century later, Monteros and Mochniej return to that same dramatic device and find it no less potent.

The wedding becomes a social crucible — a public ritual where tradition and performance collide, and where status, expectation, and identity are nakedly on display. Within its familiar structure, the work exposes how people navigate roles, conceal desires, reveal dormant motives, and assert dominance or belonging. How public rituals encode power, gender, and cultural expectation. Who belongs, and who remains at the margins.

First developed in 2018, WE_SELLE toured Poland in 2019 — performed to full houses across 17 cities and received with critical acclaim for its emotional depth, visual power, and political nuance. The work has never received a fully staged presentation in Canada.