Cecilia Bengolea

A suicidal young singer named Reni is about to get kicked out of her band when she meets a male gigolo, Andres, at an ATM after he picks her pocket. They begin an affair, and she decides to become a hooker so she can spend more time with her newfound love.

Second volet du dyptique, portrait de la danseuse Cecilia Bengolea lors d'une performance sur théâtralité, animalité et étrangeté du corps. Ces deux portraits tentent de définir les multiples possibilités d'un corps queer qui ne se limiteraient pas au genre mais s'étendraient à l'espèce aux moyens d'artifices tels que costume, maquillage, gestuelle...

Filmed in October 2017 during the floods in Spanish Town, Jamaica, Lightning Dance investigates the influence of the indeterminate electric weather on bodily imagination. The black-and-white video features several young Jamaicans who, in company of the artist, perform solo and group dance routines next to a roadside shack, while heavy rain falls and a billowing and turbulent thunderstorm roars, soaking their clothes.

Shot in Jamaica between 2015 and 2019, "Shelly Belly inna Real Life" is a collaboration between artist and choreographer Cecilia Bengolea and the dancehall scene in Kingston and Bog Walk. It explores the influences of culture and nature within the Caribbean island art community.