Who wants to be my horse?
2019
Film and installation
Commissioned by Biennale de Rennes
Curator: Celine Kopp & Etienne Bernard

then
@Meetfactory
@Drdova gallery
curated by Tereza Jindrova- Eva Riebova

Who wants to be my horse? (2018) is presented in the form of a small pocket theatre hidden behind metal bars which the viewer walks into. What is enacted is a series of tableaus in which, accompanied by other protagonists, J. Béna works her way through several sexual female identities, their representations and their narratives. Among them, Madison Young, a militant figure within the “pro-sex” movements advocating the occupation of the porn industry by women and sexual minorities, delivers a monologue to the camera. It is interspersed with poetry by the American artist and musician Jamika Ajalon, and by the bawdy Czech jokes mischievously told by Dita Lam and Shanta Rao, while the artist shares a few moments which have marked her own sex life.