18.02.2025
Carlos Motta. Pleas of Resistance
The exhibition Pleas of Resistance traverses more than twenty-five years of practice by the artist Carlos Motta, who consistently engages with the body and sexual dissidence as a terrain of experimentation and political contestation.
His early explorations of photographic self-portraiture are shown alongside his most recent performances and video installations. The exhibition explores the magnitude of Motta’s artistic research and its implacable rigor in relation to the archive, interrogating its violence, its silencing and its desires. Motta’s work challenges the imposition of Eurocentric epistemologies – from the time of the conquest and colonial period in the Americas to the present day – and considers the legacy of religion as a perpetrator and disturbing vehicle of coloniality.
Motta’s works propose alternative accounts to the hegemonic narratives of history, religion and democracy. His work and artistic collaborations materialise the potential for social reform by rewriting the official histories of colonization, military dictatorships and neo-fascism – in a pilgrimage that is always blasphemous, corporeal and political.
Motta’s works propose alternative accounts to the hegemonic narratives of history, religion and democracy. His work and artistic collaborations materialise the potential for social reform by rewriting the official histories of colonization, military dictatorships and neo-fascism – in a pilgrimage that is always blasphemous, corporeal and political.
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Press release
Press release
MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona is holding a press conference on Tuesday, February 18, at 11:30 am, to announce the ‘Carlos Motta. Pleas of Resistance’ project.
Photo: Carlos Motta, “Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a forest dark, / For the forward pathway had been lost”, 2019.
Photo: Carlos Motta, “Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a forest dark, / For the forward pathway had been lost”, 2019.
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