Divine Queerness: Tools and Forms - Methods of Healing
En Foco and The Center present Divine Queerness: Forms and Tools Methods of Healing, an exhibition hosted at the Center from June 1 - September 10, 2023. Divine Queerness: “Forms and Tools: Methods of Healing” is a visual investigation on the different ways queer identity shapes the healing mechanisms and processes of People from the Global Majority. 7 artists examine their own personal, ancestral and communal journey with healing through different forms and tools, rooted in radical imagination as a way of resilience and a necessary form of reclamation; overcoming all obstacles to achieve a notion of divinity.
How do we define divinity within our queerness? And how do we reclaim it when across the centuries, it has been stripped from our identity? What are the forms and tools we use to heal? How does healing serve as a radical expression of our resilience?
A visualization of one’s own journey in the labyrinths of the mind, as a method to understand and overcome trauma; The process of collaging to negotiate the violence of colonial past and the present; A retrospective of melancholia and grief, to mourn and release the present struggles of the lgbtqia+ community; The transgression of ancestral ritualistic practices, with new parameters only made possible by queerness; collaged sculptures to reclaim and celebrate the perception of the self; an afro futuristic alter ego to envision freedom; and a series of portraits, documenting and honoring the divinity of selected members of the queer community.
How do we define divinity within our queerness? And how do we reclaim it when across the centuries, it has been stripped from our identity? What are the forms and tools we use to heal? How does healing serve as a radical expression of our resilience?
A visualization of one’s own journey in the labyrinths of the mind, as a method to understand and overcome trauma; The process of collaging to negotiate the violence of colonial past and the present; A retrospective of melancholia and grief, to mourn and release the present struggles of the lgbtqia+ community; The transgression of ancestral ritualistic practices, with new parameters only made possible by queerness; collaged sculptures to reclaim and celebrate the perception of the self; an afro futuristic alter ego to envision freedom; and a series of portraits, documenting and honoring the divinity of selected members of the queer community.
