goldiechiari's work Dump Queen consists of a video and a series of pictures produced in 2007-8. The subject is a performance by Swedish dancer, Lotta Melin as she reinterprets artist Carmen Miranda (originally from 1941 movie, One Night in Rio) in the Guidonia dump, which lies on the outskirts of Rome, Italy. Mountains of garbage accumulate at this site and seagulls crowd the sky. Miranda appears to sing and dance the song Chica Chica Boom Chic. In Dump Queen video and photographs, Miranda represents a "tropical and exotic" divinity of abundance, enacting a light-hearted and mad dance in the context of decadence, ruin and abjection. "In the dump's squalid phantasmagoria, the same commodities that had been fetishized by advertising, dynamized by montage, and haloed through backlighting, are now stripped of their aura of charismatic power. […] Miranda dances as if to perform a ceremony of removal; unconscious of the waste, ignoring the decay around her.
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