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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.

Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau is a German-Colombian interdisciplinary artist working between film, video installation, and performance, dealing with queer decoloniality. Simon(e)'s works have premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, BFI London Film Festival, New York Film Festival, documenta 14, Wexner Center of the Arts, Berlinische Galerie - Museum of Modern Art, New Directors/New Films MoMA, and won, among others, the Emerging Talent Award at kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2022, and the Best Director Award at the Cartagena International Film Festival 2018. Carlos Motta is a New York-based Colombian multidisciplinary artist who documents the social conditions and political struggles of sexual, gender, and ethnic minority communities, challenging societal norms and values through visibility and self-representation. His work is included in the 58th Carnegie International (2022) and the permanent collections of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Guggenheim Museum.