CANDELA CAPITAN

@CANDELACAPITAN

Based in Barcelona, Spanish artist Candela Capitán is a strange and beguiling bird, combining artistic disciplines such as contemporary dance, performance art, photography, and film, with gymnastics, contortionism, and recently it seems, other living creatures such as insects, snails, and toads. At the most recent edition of art festival Loom, Candela reposed in a glass coffin for three hours while giant praying mantises, and spiny stick insects each roughly the size of a grown man’s hand wandered around her body. You do you, boo.