Carlos Motta: Your Monsters, Our Idols

Acclaimed for work that addresses critical LGBTQIA+ issues of both past and present, Carlos Motta (he/him) describes himself as “an historian of untold narratives and archivist of repressed histories”. “Your Monsters, Our Idols” brings together a selection of Motta’s photographs, films, sculptures, drawings, and installations from the late 1990s through today, which reflect two major areas of exploration in his practice: postcolonial subjectivity and democratic participation. These works reveal the struggles of queer people under the constraints of oppressive social and political regimes, but also use participation as a device, employing self-representation and self-determination as strategies to produce counternarratives.