Favorite Positions is an animated sculpture video series inspired from the other mind of the octopus which suggests a body without boundaries – a fully liquid being, born out of a state of constant repetition.
The spirit and rhythms that infuse this body move in several directions at once. Sweat and tropical rain further dissolve the boundaries between inside and outside, reminding us that inner body fluid is an electrical conductor that functions for the body in the same way as the brain's synapses - creating new pathways and enabling communications that redefine life and sentience.
The movements that interest Cecilia Bengolea are those where the body is driven by a physical intelligence of its own. Through rituals and repetitions, the arms, legs and torso seem to develop an independent memory. The current work uses the figure of the octopus - of liquid oceanic intelligence - as a bridge between Yoruba and Dancehall cultures and contemporary ideas of the sacred and profane. The body is presented both in its immobile sculptural form and as an active choreographic being - one still and evanescent, the other a succession of eternities.