Arca Shares "Thievery" Video, Is Working on Björk’s New Album

Update: We have confirmed that Björk co-produced her new album with Arca.

Venezuelan producer Arca, aka Alejandro Ghersi, has shared the video for “Thievery”. The video features Xen, a digitally-rendered, gender-ambiguous character who Ghersi calls a fictional alter ego, dancing in front of the camera. You can watch the video, which was created by Jesse Kanda, below. “Thievery” appears on his debut album, Xen, which is out November 4 via Mute. 

In The Fader‘s new story on Ghersi, Kanda describes Xen as such:

Alejandro is very multi-sided as a personality, and he can sometimes become what we call Xen, jokingly. And it’s this very sassy, confident, very feminine side of him. And it’s like, ‘Ohhhh, she’s out,’ we say—mainly when we’re smoking weed, just fucking around. ‘Xen’s out.’ And he’s, like, going crazy, changing his outfits or whatever. That’s Xen inside of him. It’s this kind of ghost. A spirit. Alejandro’s spirit.

Additionally, Ghersi is the sole producer of Björk‘s forthcoming full-length album, according to The Fader. That would be the follow up to 2011′s Biophilia. Previously, he contributed to Kanye West‘s Yeezus and collaborated with FKA twigs. 

Read Andrew Gaerig’s look at Arca’s work.

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