Juxtaposing past and present, the exhibition presents works from various periods and artistic movements, highlighting visions of LGBTQIA+ stories that identify subjectivities outside the hegemony of the body.
View of the exhibition “LGBTQIA+ Stories”, presented at MASP, 2024/2025. Photo: Eduardo Ortega
Curated by Adriano Pedrosa, artistic director, and Julia-Bryan Wilson, assistant curator of modern and contemporary art, with the collaboration of André Mesquita, curator, and assistance from Leandro Muniz, assistant curator, and Teo Teotonio, curatorial assistant, the exhibition is organized into eight sections: Love and Desire; Icons and Muses; Spaces and Territories; Ecosexualities and Transcendental Fantasies; Sacred and Profane; Abstractions; Archives; and Queer Library.
“The current global landscape for queer and trans people is uneven: acceptance, solidarity and visibility exist side-by-side with hatred, censorship and outright legal prohibition in different parts of the world. On the one hand, greater attention to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual and other minority (LGBTQIA+) issues has created more opportunities for queer and trans artists and thinkers. On the other, LGBTQIA+ people around the world—impacted differently by their race, class, gender, age and nationality—continue to face repression. In this context, LGBTQIA+ Stories brings together works that address queer topics or that are made by LGBTQIA+ artists, activists and researchers. The exhibition celebrates the richness and multiplicity of queer creativity in the visual arts,” said Julia Bryan-Wilson and Adriano Pedrosa.
The exhibition presents contemporary works that establish criticisms and reflections in relation to artistic canons. The exhibition also debates the stereotypes and contradictions that exist in the LGBTQIA+ community, in addition to presenting documents from self-organized community groups in Brazil, such as MUTHA (Transgender Museum of History and Art), the Brazilian Institute of Transmasculinities (IBRAT–SP) and the Lesbian Archive, as well as from the Global South, including 12 other countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
LGBTQIA+ Stories is on view until April 13, 2025.
MASP Avenida Paulista, 1578, Bela Vista. São Paulo/SP, Brazil Visitation: Wednesday to Sunday, from 10 am to 6 pm (last entry 5 pm); Tuesday free, from 10 am to 8 pm (last entry 7 pm).
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Translation: Zoë Perry
Left: Mayara Ferrão, The Kiss 20, From the series Unoblivions Albuns], 2024. Images generated by Artificial Intelligence, inkjet printing on cotton paper, 19 × 15 cm. Collection of the artist and Galeria Verve. Photo: Mayara Ferrão. Right: Tammy Rae Carland, Untitled #4, from the series Lesbian Beds, 2022. C-print on paper, 101,5 × 76 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman. Photo: Tammy Rae Carland
Left: Martine Gutierrez, Demons, Chin "Demon of Lust", p93 from Indigenous Woman, 2019. C-print on paper and hand-painted frame, 112 × 81,5 × 5 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Ryan Lee Gallery. Photo: Martine Gutierrez. Right: Yuki Kihara, Two Fa’afafine (After Gauguin), from the series Paradise Camp, 2020. C-print mounted behind acrylic glass, 94 x 72 cm. Courtesy Yuki Kihara e Milford Galleries. Photo: Yuki Kihara
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