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Jeremy Deller & Cecilia Bengolea
Bombom's Dream, 2016

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Jeremy Deller & Cecilia Bengolea

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Cecilia Bengolea

Single-channel video installation, color, sound
12 min 48 sec
Co-commissioned by Hayward Gallery, 32nd Bienal de São Paulo and The Vinyl Factory, and co-produced by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary with support using public funding by Arts Council England.

Jeremy Deller and Cecilia Bengolea’s Bombom’s Dream follows the fantastic adventures of a Japanese dancer known as Bombom – celebrated for her gymnastic, slapstick dance moves – as she travels to Jamaica to participate in the local dancehall music scene. With its low-fi special effects and fantasy sequences, the video is a cross-cultural, contemporary equivalent to Alice in Wonderland.

Like many of Deller and Bengolea’s individual works – not least Deller’s 2006 film on the international fan base of the English electronic band Depeche Mode – Bombom’s Dream explores the social character of rituals related to popular music. It is the second film that Deller and Bengolea have worked on together, and features an original soundtrack by Deller.

Jeremy Deller: *born 1966 in London, United Kingdom | Living and working in London, United Kingdom
Cecilia Bengolea: *born 1979 in Buenos Aires, Argentina | Living and working in Paris, France

Cecilia Bengolea is graduate of the University Buenos Aires in Philosophy and Art History. She got the choreographic master Ex.e.r.c.e. by Mathilde Monnier at the Centre Chorégraphique National in Montpellier in 2004. Her collaborative work with French choreographer François Chaignaud, Pâquerette and Sylphides, have earned several awards such as the Award de la Critique de Paris in 2010 and the Young Artist Prize at the Gwangju Biennial in 2014.

The biography is from àngels barcelona.

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Jeremy Deller is a conceptual, video and installation artist. Much of Deller's work is collaborative; it has a strong political aspect, in the subjects dealt with and also the devaluation of artistic ego through the involvement of other people in the creative process. He won the Turner Prize in 2004, and in 2010 was awarded the Albert Medal of the Royal Society for encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA).

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Artist's website:

http://www.jeremydeller.org/

The Making of 'Bom Bom's Dream', Courtesy the Vinyl Factory, 2016

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Jeremy Deller & Cecilia BengoleaBombom's Dream, 2016

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Bombom's Dream, 2016