Dump Queen

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.