Cecilia Bengolea employs dance as a tool and a means for a performance-oriented research which constantly challenges the dimensions and codes of video, sculpture and installation. The artist conceives her choreographic production as a form of “animated sculpture,” which allows her to become both the subject and the object of the work. Drawing on natural energies and on the building of empathic relationships, her pieces put the body, individual and collective, at the core of a complex branching of meanings and visual outcomes, turning it into a prospective engine for change. Dance is thus intended as a universal language that generates meaning, promoting an idea of community, of a possible future. On exhibition at the 58th October Salon, Bengolea’s video piece Bestiaire (2019) is a 3D animation shown in three different sequences where the artist’s body, captured in several dance postures, undergoes constant transformation through distortions, and ends up forming a catalog of imaginary creatures. The piece is inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ research on fantastic zoology as well as Baruch Spinoza’s principles of self-expansion through the other. From unique and individual, the body becomes a plural entity whose boundaries can expand into the realm of imagination and utopia, incorporating forms that go beyond the common perception of a single, 316 317 defined, distinct self. The Dreamers exhibition also includes a collaborative video by Bengolea and Jeremy Deller, Bom Bom’s Dream (2016).