The exhibition Prayers of Resistance covers more than twenty-five years of practice by artist Carlos Motta, always marked by the body and sexual dissidence as a territory of experimentation and political contestation.<\/p>\n
His first photographic self-portrait explorations coexist with his most recent performances and video installations. The exhibition explores the density of Motta\u2019s artistic research, characterized by relentless rigor in dealing with the archive and interrogating its violence, silencing, and desires. Motta\u2019s work attacks the imposition of Eurocentric epistemologies, from the conquest and colonial period in America to its propagation in the present, taking into account the legacy of religion as a perpetrating and disruptive vehicle of coloniality.<\/p>\n
Motta\u2019s artistic career began when he was very young, in the late 1990s, shortly before he emigrated and settled in New York. The exhibition pays special attention to the artist\u2019s engagement with political histories and social movements \u2013 and, more specifically, with the politics of sexuality and gender, as well as with the so-called HIV\/AIDS crisis \u2013 and its contemporary implications for the fragility of bodies. The notion of the collective body and the artist\u2019s attention to the politics of care are fundamental to representation, both individually or self-representatively and in the various forms of collaboration that the artist has stipulated in his projects over the years.<\/p>\n
Motta\u2019s works propose alternative narratives to the hegemonic narratives of history, religion and democracy. His work and artistic collaborations materialize the potential for social rectification through the rewriting of history and erode the official narratives of colonial history, military dictatorships and neo-fascism and its violence, in an always blasphemous, corporeal and political pilgrimage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":-1,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"event_type":[109],"event_type_2":[],"class_list":["post-7283","ajde_events","type-ajde_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_location-macba","event_organizer-macba","event_type-cultura"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pridebarcelona.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events\/7283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pridebarcelona.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pridebarcelona.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ajde_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pridebarcelona.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pridebarcelona.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pridebarcelona.org\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pridebarcelona.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pridebarcelona.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7283"},{"taxonomy":"event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pridebarcelona.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type?post=7283"},{"taxonomy":"event_type_2","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pridebarcelona.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type_2?post=7283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}