View from "AIDS: A Silenced History in the Balearic Scene", at Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani, 2024 (Image by David Bonet, courtesy of Es Baluard)
AIDS. A SILENCED HISTORY IN THE BALEARIC SCENE
Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani de Palma, Mallorca
From September 21 of 2024 to January 12 of 2024
Gori Mora is part of the group show "Sida. All Utopias Go Through the Belly" in Es Baluard - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Palma, curated by Jesús Alcaide.
The exhibition attempts to chronologically cover the impact of the syndrome on the Balearic Islands, from 1981, when the first documented case in Spain appeared, to the present day. It is a pioneering investigation in the Balearic context that accesses AIDS and HIV from two places, artistic expression and activism.
Through an extensive compilation of documentation, photographs, audiovisual material, objects, pieces and artistic projects, the exhibition brings together historical milestones in the islands, with obligatory national and international references, such as the death of Rock Hudson, Pepe Espaliu's Carrying project, the birth of associations such as Alas or Siloé, among others, giving equal relevance to the work of art and the document, in the same way that AIDS broke with social classes.
The artists participating are Costus, Pepe Espaliú, Robert Mapplethorpe, Pepe Miralles, Gori Mora, Joan Morey, Ocaña, Andrés Senra, Toni Socías Cladera, The Carrying Society and Agustí Villaronga.
Jesús Alcaide, curator of the exhibition, comments that 'It is about making visible and staging a story that until now had been silenced both in the Balearic and national context, a story made of fragments in which not only the cultural manifestations that put images to the narrative about AIDS are present but also the indispensable role that associations such as Alas or Siloé, among others, have had in ending the stigma and turning what was once a social disease into a sexual health issue'.
More info in Es Baluard website.
Views from the exhibition "AIDS: A Silenced History in the Balearic Scene", at Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani, 2024 (Image by David Bonet, courtesy of Es Baluard)
