Project
Dialogues: David Wojnarowicz and Carlos Motta — ARCO Madrid
Dialogues: David Wojnarowicz and Carlos Motta
ARCO Madrid
27 February – 3 March, 2019
For ARCO Madrid's Dialogues in 2019, P.P.O.W Gallery presented a two-person booth of works by David Wojnarowicz (1954 –1992) and Carlos Motta (b. 1978), artists who embrace queer identities as a means of social and political critique. Featuring photography, painting, sculpture, and video, the booth presented works from 1978 to 2018 that explore complimentary strains in both artists’ practices, specifically self-portraiture and investigations of American aggression in Latin America. Marrying themes of mortality, performed identity and sexual alterity to discussions of Western imperialism, the booth saught to draw parallels between two important voices in contemporary art.
Carlos Motta selected his work in conjunction with Wojnarowicz’s and created a new series of self-portraits for the presentation.
