Cecilia Bengolea

Other residents

To coincide with the Cities theme week of the Dubai World Expo, Art Explora is exhibiting works by eight internationally renowned French artists. Questioning the place of ecosystems in the urban environment, these works are presented simultaneously in several urban spaces, in Dubai as well as in Paris, in order to share the World Expo's artistic program with as many people as possible.

Cecilia Bengolea

Plants create our biosphere, 2021

Presented in the Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre metro station, in front of the French Pavilion at the Dubai World Expo and on Jumeirah Road in Dubai. 

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Thanks to plants, which are infinitely adaptable to human aggression, while at the same time creating a biosphere that enables the existence of all other living beings. It is urgent that we become aware of our role in helping plants to accomplish their mission. Biodiversity is possible thanks to the role of plants and bees in cleaning polluted air and fertilizing degraded soil and flowers.
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The artist's biography

Cecilia Bengolea was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1979. She now lives and works in France. Cecilia Bengolea uses a variety of means of expression, including live performance, video and sculpture. For her, dance is a tool and a means of eliciting deep empathy and emotional exchange. The artist develops a wide range of artistic activities in which she conceives movement, dance and performance as animated sculptures, and in which she is both the object and subject of her own work. She has collaborated with dancehall artists such as Craig Black Eagle, Bombom DHQ, Damion BG, as well as with artists Dominique Gonzalez Forster and Jeremy Deller. Cecilia Bengolea's work has been exhibited worldwide: at the Lyon Biennale (2015), at the Tanks at Tate Modern, London (2015), at the São Paulo Biennale (2016), at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010 and 2016) and at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015 and 2018). 

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Discover the works of the seven other artists featured in the "Autres habitants" exhibition:

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This project is supported by the French Institute of the United Arab Emirates, JCDecaux, the French Pavilion at the Dubai World Expo and RATP.

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