In Mourning Stage, a series of drawings by Motta is used as a performance score. These images depict different renditions of the devil in hell. Among this group of demons, feminized characters suggest sexual perversions as typified by the Catholic imagination. Paetau interprets and responds to the drawings using her body and facial expressions in a ritualistic performance, where the body, fetishized and colonized by morality, is mourned.

Selection of Festivals, Exhibitions & Awards

Tono Festival: Video Art Program 2024
Berlinische Galerie – Museum of Modern Art 2023, Solo Exhibition
Berlin Art Week – Wilhelm Hallen 2023
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2023, National Premiere in Germany
Bogota Short Film Festival – Bogoshorts 2022, National Premiere in Colombia, Santa Lucía Award for Best Colombian Experimental Film
Wexner Center of the Arts 2022, National Premiere in the United States
11th Berlin Biennale 2020 (Work in progress)

Credits

Conceived and Developed by: SIMON(E) JAIKIRIUMA PAETAU & CARLOS MOTTA | Performed by: SIMON(E) JAIKIRIUMA PAETAU | Original music: ISABEL GONZÁLEZ TORO | Assistant composer original music: JOSÉ MARULANDA | Sound Mix: RUBÉN VALDÉS | Live video mix & Software creator: OLIVIA JACK | Distribution: LUCÍA GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA

Co-produced by Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, the Goethe-Institute Kolumbien, and WeltFilm. With the support from the XI Berlin Biennale.