
Activity
Wednesday February 26, 2025
Let’s visit the exhibition Carlos Motta. Pleas of Resistance.
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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