Let’s visit the exhibition <em>Carlos Motta. Pleas of Resistance</em>. 

Activity
Wednesday February 26, 2025

Let’s visit the exhibition Carlos Motta. Pleas of Resistance

Exclusive activity for MACBA Friends
Carlos Motta. "Corpo Fechado — The Devil’s Work" (2018). Courtesy Mor Charpentier, Paris; P.P.O.W Gallery New York; Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo; Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon

We accompany María Berríos, curator of the exhibition, on a guided tour to explore Carlos Motta’s career through his work. 

We invite you to immerse yourselves, with María Berríos, in the exhibition Carlos Motta. Pleas of Resistance, the first major anthology devoted by a European institution to Carlos Motta (Bogotá, 1978). In a guided tour, we will discover more than twenty-five years of artistic practice ranging from his first photographic self-portraits to his most recent performances and video installations. 

His work can only be understood through Motta’s commitment to social and political movements, specifically to the politics of gender identity and sexuality, and above all to a determination to give a voice to dissident discourses that challenge the dominant normative ones. This point runs through all his work, which revolves around two central themes that discuss and multiply the implications of the dissident being: intersectionality and the queer factor

Motta’s work attacks the imposition of eurocentric epistemologies, from the conquest and the colonial period in the Americas to their propagation today, taking into account the legacy of religion as both a perpetrator and a disruptor in colonialism. 

The exhibition pays special attention to the artist’s commitment to political stories, social justice movements – in which the so-called HIV or AIDS crisis plays a special part – and contemporary declinations revolving around the fragility of bodies, in terms of both individual and collective representation

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dates
Wednesday February 26, 2025
timetable
6:00 pm
location
MACBA. Meier Building
title
Let’s visit the exhibition Carlos Motta. Pleas of Resistance
language
Spanish
price
Free, advance booking required. Limited capacity
dates
Wednesday February 26, 2025
title
Let’s visit the exhibition Carlos Motta. Pleas of Resistance
timetable
6:00 pm
language
Spanish
location
MACBA. Meier Building
price
Free, advance booking required. Limited capacity

participant

María Berrios (MACBA) is a sociologist, editor and curator from Chile, her work focuses on contemporary art, politics, and culture in Latin America, and beyond, with special interest in collective cultural experiments and Third World movements between the 1960s and 1970s. She is co-founder of the editorial collective vaticanochico and has been a guest professor at multiple academic, cultural and self-organized institutions in Europe and Latin America. Among her recent curatorial projects are The Crack Begins Within. 11th Berlin Biennale (2020-21) curated together with Renata Cervetto, Agustín Pérez Rubio and Lisette Lagnado, and In the Jungle There Is Much to Do, Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (2022-2023). She is currently Director of Curatorial Programmes and Research at MACBA.
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artists
1 artists

contact

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amics@macba.cat 93 481 33 68
Carlos Motta. Pleas of Resistance
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exhibition
From February 21 to October 26, 2025

Carlos Motta. Pleas of Resistance