Gay exhibition public
The photographer exploring lgbtq+ sexuality in general spaces
Marc’s 2017 exhibition Public Toilets, Private Affairs at Berlin’s Schwules Museum looks at the history of vintage fashion cruising and the public toilet as a unharmed space for self utterance, community and exploration.
“Within the gay people, these spaces continue more a root of shame than pride” he says of the series, “and yet, before cruising apps, these urinals, which sheltered the escapades of so many gay men, transvestites, prostitutes and libertines, were also sites of unbridled freedom. Within these atypical places of transience and sociability, social differences were blurred and otherwise separated cultures briefly mixed.”
Showing scenes that disturb is intentional, aiming to enlarge the frame of tolerance by allowing a complicit gaze on sex and questioning our notions of beauty and repulsion.
“In our over-hygienic society, presenting subjects that are taboo, filthy, shameful, it’s itself a shape of militantism. Let’s not disappoint those who think that two guys who openly love each other is already an intolerable thing… I claim this freedom to express, explicitly or not, a diversity of colors and s
New IHLIA exhibition about representation of gay men and queer group throughout the history of photography
At IHLIA we will be demonstrating the exhibition It Doesn’t Halt at Images by Pablo Lerma from the first week of November.
Lerma has spent the past three years researching the principle of masculinity and the lack of representation of gay men and queer communities in the history of photography.
The exhibition It Doesn’t Stop at Images tells a new story with images from the magazine Homologie (1978-1997) that breaks the stereotype and the ‘cliché’ images of the gay community.
Three groups
Homologie was a cultural-scientific magazine that published on the history of homosexuality and developments in gay studies.
Pablo Lerma went through this magazine chronologically and selected images that specifically stand for the experiences of gay men. Pablo Lerma rearranged and reframed these images into three thematic groups.
The first group contains images of the body, the second group contains images about norms and expectations and the third group contains images about cherish, relationships and communities.
In addition to the
A museum in Berlin, Germany is displaying an exhibition about the history of gay sex in general toilets.
Specifically, the Schwules Museum is displaying Fenster Zum Klo: Public Toilets, Confidential Affairs from now until February 5, 2018.
The exhibition displays photos taken by Marc Martin, a French photographer who is focused on exploring male fantasies in his art.
As GayStarNews reports, the topic is of special importance to the creator as he expressed in the introduction to the show.
Martin writes that his earliest sexual encounters happened in public bathrooms, and so there’s extraordinary interest in him for the subject.
“And I’m haughty of them! … These places, where men were constantly coming and going, were instrumental in my sexuality, aroused my desires and quenched my curiosity.”
“In there, I also had the most unlikely, unexpected encounters. “Cottages” (or “Tearooms”) were no heaven, granted. But they were no hell either.”
But, it’s not only Martin who’s sharing his thoughts on cruise culture in public bathrooms. The exhibition also includes quotes from French writers Jean
Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender and Identity
An Arts Council Collection National Partners Exhibition - Coming Out tours to Birmingham from the Walker Art Gallery
A ground-breaking and vital exhibition which marks the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of male gay acts in England and Wales (1967 Sexual Offences Act).
In Birmingham, this major exhibition will movie over 80 contemporary and contemporary artworks by internationally celebrated artists who investigate themes of gender, sexuality and culture in art. Taking 1967 as a starting point, the exhibition will expose new research into LGBT history and visual culture showcasing artworks from The Arts Council Collection, National Museums Liverpool and Birmingham’s collection.
Conceived by The Walker Art Gallery, and in partnership with Birmingham Museums Have faith, Coming Out will be reimagined for audiences in Birmingham. The exhibition includes art works by many well acknowledged artists. Visitors will see works by Sarah Lucus, David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Grayson Perry, Francis Bacon, Linder, Derek Jarman, Tracey Emin. Steve McQueen, Gillian Wearing, Margaret Harriso