Reb W Morris’ performance includes spoken word and sound recorded during her time filming the flamenco community in Andalusia, and features her cabaret alter ego The Fatal Femme, based on Marlene Dietrich in the film The Devil is a Woman. The film satirises the concept of the femme fatal in a Carnivelesque depiction of Seville, an orgiastic explosion of desire and its painful endings. Reb recreates her own painful ending, based on her experiences at the time of filming, and the absence of a language to adequately deal with the dark themes of death and heartbreak. The piece explores how the pulse of universal grief can be found within the beat of the flamenco compas.

Photography by Thomas Hensher