Bella Báguena. Jardín de piel [Garden of Skin]

A vulnerable aria, a ritualistic conversation: she bleeds in front of her audience, accompanied by witchy textures, sublime atmospheres and ecstatic prayers. This Valencian artist’s confessional and autobiographical sound work narrates personal stories, sometimes cryptically and sometimes very openly.

Like a kind of contemporary folklore made up of disconnected and abstract stories, Bella uses her raw, operatic voice to address themes such as dissent, bodily transitioning, love and heartbreak, ecstasy, error and the unknown. She invites us—in the midst of Scorpio season—to a concert for lesbians and other sentient beings, presenting an echographic exploration of her inner world, her wanderings and paths, her outbursts, her obsessions and her emotional diary.