UNTIL SUNDAY 9/11
THE SHIP. University, 2
Homosexuality in Spain during the decades of 1920 i 1930 is the central theme of the exhibition Rosa, Child and fir of the Ship. You will find the visual essay of the artist Jesús Martínez Oliva, based on the experience and representation of homosexuals in the early 20th century, with the figure of Federico García Lorca as a guiding thread. Through archival images and texts from newspapers and books, period objects and materials, and recently created sculptures, Murcia presents us with a history of Spain that departs from hegemonic narratives centered on heteronormativity. The exhibition is divided into four sections: the first addresses how, from the medical field, legal and social, homosexuality was associated with misfortune and suffering; the second studies the process of pathologizing homosexuals; the third part of a verse from the poem "Ode to Walt Whitman" by Lorca to underline the internalized homophobia of the Granada poet and the last one includes sculptures inspired by verses by Luis Cernuda, Vicente Aleixandre, Emilio Prados and Lorca himself. Four installations break the dominant oppressive morality of the early twentieth century on the nave and the acts of resistance that faced him. AU
