Curated by Deslave
Exhibition
-> Oct 9 2021 – Jan 15 2022
Peana
PEANA presents Para Morelio, a group show that originates from a re-reading of Julio Galán’s body of work and the Neo-Mexicanism painting history. Curated by Deslave (Mauricio Muñoz and Andrew Roberts) and Ana Pérez Escoto, the exhibition gathers the work of Rafa Esparza, Romeo Gómez López, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, Ana Segovia, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger and Julio Galán through a queer perspective.
The works communicate with each other as a whole ensemble, articulating and interchanging expressions of desire, humor, play and affection through the self-representation of non-normative sexes and genders. Para Morelio traces observational lines to the past and the present of Mexican artistic production, overlapping times and implementing an intergenerational dialogue to understand queerness not as a monolithic experience, but as a state where race, gender and class intersect non-hegemonic identities.
— PEANA
Cover image: Para Morelio, 2021-2022, PEANA. Photo: Michelle Lartigue. Courtesy of the artists and PEANA