Carlos Motta, Deseos / رغبات, 2015
as Tiger Devore, David Iris Cameron, and Hida Viloria speak of their political battles, personal experiences, loves, passions, and difficulties of being intersex. Finally, Motta presents a new series of small-scale replicas of classical sculptures that depict “hermaphrodites” and that have been transposed into a series of 3D-printed sculptures.
question gender norms, desires, and the potential of real freedom. Motta is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work draws upon political history in an attempt to create counter narratives that recognize suppressed histories, communities, and identities. Motta has an ongoing preoccupation with democratic representation and the repression of individual and collective civil liberties. Promoting the act of self-representation, he creates works that question the writing of history, the construction of political memory, and the normative discourses of sexuality and gender.
Photographic works by Del LaGrace Volcano present a series of self-portraits of a mother and an ageing intersex body, and Arisleyda Delone’s film focuses on the creation of gender. Beloved Martina… layers narratives of past and present to
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