Lia D Castro: reflected complicity

The show Lia D Castro: reflected complicity presents a series of paintings and drawings by the artist based on her experience as a sex worker. Most of them are scenes of amorous and intellectual exchanges with her subjects, evoking affection as a tool for social transformation.

Castro’s work is based on a deep investigation of her clients’ subjectivity and profile in order to didactically make them aware of racial, territorial, and gender issues, thus restoring the humanity of those who are socially undesirable, repelled, invisible and dead.

“What is done with the money from the sex work? Depending on the information that the client-subjectobject brings me, I buy theory. For example, if during the relationship I notice that he has racist attitudes, I take the amount paid to me and buy theory, like books by Angela Davis, bell hooks, Frantz Fanon. When the same man comes back, I will present some theories about racism, I will return his racism in a didactic way, contributing to the racist subject that he himself has not even questioned yet, and even thinks that he is exempt from being racist because he has a relationship with me—considering that I am a black person.” — Lia D Castro in Your children also do it, 2019

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