{"id":4673,"date":"2023-06-01T16:18:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xarxa.museunacional.cat\/som-qui-som-som-com-som\/"},"modified":"2024-07-25T09:15:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T07:15:44","slug":"som-qui-som-som-com-som","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/xarxa.museunacional.cat\/en\/som-qui-som-som-com-som\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Who We Are, We Are What We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We Are Who We Are, We Are What We Are<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Curators: Pere Parramon and Laura Cornejo<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Queer Aesthetics and Dissidences in the XMAC museums<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Index<\/span><\/h2>\n

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\nExpressions of dissidence<\/a>
\nStrutting one\u2019s stuff<\/a>
\nApproaching the other side<\/a>
\nHow is desire represented?<\/a>
\nParticular friends<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Construction of the lesbian identity <\/a>
\nGays showing off<\/a>
\nZeus goes cruising<\/a>
\nAcademies for not very academic views<\/a>
\nThe eroticised male body <\/a>
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\nAIDS <\/a>
\nPink, let the love be there<\/a>
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Introduction. The who and the how<\/h2>\n

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Affective, sexual and gender diversity is part of our nature. In the same way, art, as the most profoundly human expression possible, cannot fail to embody this wealth. Based on works from the collections of the Xarxa de Museus d’Art de Catalunya (XMAC), this exhibition celebrates the plurality of the ways of loving, desiring, feeling and thinking in aesthetic manifestations.<\/h4>\n

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This 17th<\/sup>-century piece of furniture with Saints Cosmas and Damian serves as a metaphor to conceptualise the expression to “come out of the closet”, used to designate the act of making one\u2019s same-gender relationship public. Taking advantage of the presence in the Catalan art collections of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender, intersex and queer people, or those with any other sexual orientation or gender identity \u2013the acronym LGTBIQ+ encompasses them all\u2013 the exhibition itinerary identifies some of the ways in which they are evident or symbolise challenges to heteronormativity.<\/h4>\n

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Each of the areas proposed in this exhibition invites us to contemplate with different eyes the pieces collected in the XMAC and to read the multiplicity of nuances within a multifaceted reality that is constantly being revised. Thus, the exhibition itinerary integrates the visibilities of the affective and identity diversity offered by the works themselves \u2013represented according to the determining factors of their contexts\u2013 and, at the same time, the views that can be superimposed on them, those that are not limited to the mere perceptive act, but project onto it previous ideas and expectations.<\/h4>\n

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The exhibition We are who we are, we are what we are<\/em> is presented as a reflection on queer subjectivity, queer being term in English that can be applied to sexual and gender dissidence with respect to traditional models. At the same time, it tells us of the treasure that is affection, such as the Dues dones esteses<\/em><\/a> (Two women stretched out) (1944) by Joaquim Sunyer at the Fundaci\u00f3 Palau (Caldes d’Estrac<\/a>)<\/span>, and of what can be essential and primary in us (we think of Llena’s work) and as construction. Thus we observe Torrell’s collage.<\/h4>\n

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