The exhibition will open to the public with a presentation by artists and curators on Monday 6 February at 6 pm, and will be on display until 29 April, as part of the Barcelona LGBTI Centre’s “Els nostres cossos són camps de batalla” [Our Bodies are Battlegrounds] programme.
From 6 February to 29 April, the exhibition space at the Barcelona LGBTI Centre (Comte Borrell, 22) will be hosting the “Entranyes” exhibition, which invites the visitor to break with the structures that present reality to us in terms of binary opposites: natural/ artificial; inside/ outside; man/ woman; individual/ group; culture/ nature, etc.
The exhibition brings together the works of eleven artists, researchers and activists who work with diverse artistic languages and use technology to assert different notions of the body as ‘territory’.
Both the invited artists and the curatorial team are mainly migrants from the lands of Abba Yalta (Latin America).
As if they were organs of the human body as territory, there beats a nerve centre inside each of the three ‘cavities’ of the exhibition space at the LGBTI Centre.
The first is in dispute with the potentially oppressive structures on which the notion of national sovereignty is based, such as “race”, gender, property and the family.
The second takes a different approach; conspiring, appealing, and announcing other possible futures.
And the third embodies ideas that challenge the categories of scientific discourse on what it is to be human, bringing back to us the detritus of its fissures and ruptures.
For example, here you’ll find research on the body, identity and technology in the Quimera Rosa project; reflections on resistance in rural environments from the migrant, anti-racist and transfeminist Sami Wasi collective; and the condemnations of the mechanisms of oppression by the imagen ensayo collective through audiovisuals, and more.
Key figures in migrant and racialised activisms like sex worker and artist Linda Porn, multidisciplinary artist and non-binary transvestite activist Feña Celedón/Norma Mor and activist and author iki yos piña narváez runes will also be among the invited guests.
This exhibition is an attempt to entranyar-nos: to reach the depths, the roots, and right down to the bone to make visible the frontiers that limit worlds that coexist alongside each other, and suggest possible ways they might be crossed.
Public presentation with artists and curators: Monday 6 April at 6 p.m. Admission is free until capacity is reached.
Admission to the exhibition is free during the Centre’s opening hours:
Mondays: from 3.30 pm to 8.30 pm
Tuesdays to Fridays: from 10 am to 2 pm, and from 3.30 pm to 8:30 pm
Saturdays: from 10 am to 2 pm and 3 to 8 pm