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Benjamin Ramírez Pérez

Embellishments

Film expérimental | 16mm | couleur | 7:50 | Allemagne, Pays-Bas | 2016

Reenactments of cinematic strategies, images and fantasies tied to sex work and stage performance are layered on top of each other, focusing on embellished surfaces of bodies, objects and architectures. They intertwine and form a new entity in a female drag performance referencing 1970s cinema, sex work activism and pop choreography, which was developed in collaboration with the performance artist Liad Hussein Kantorowicz.

Benjamin Ramírez Pérez is currently a participant of de Ateliers Amsterdam (2016-2018). He studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne from 2009-2015. His works have been screened at Locarno, Edinburgh, Rotterdam and Toronto International Film Festival, among others. He had recent Group and Solo shows at Artothek Cologne, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Kunstmuseum Bonn and Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade.