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Freddie Mercury was never able to sing the legendary "Barcelona" in the opening gala of the Olympic Games 1992 together with his admired Montserrat Caballé. He had been dead for seven months. They side. before, performed the stirring "The Show Must Go On", an anthem of farewell and resistance that gives its title to this exhibition that proposes a documentary and artistic journey through more than three decades of activism against HIV and AIDS in Valencia. ldyyy the dyy., in front of the cameras, he shook hands with AIDS patients to get rid of the stigma that surrounded them. It was a great gesture from one of the most famous people in the world, but out of the limelight, organizations like VLC Committee (founded on 1989) they showed how to organize, take care of yourself and build a strong social and community fabric for patients and their families. photographs, posters, documents, news, songs, objects and testimonies trace in La Nau the narrative map of the medical advances and social conquests of the time. The exhibition also exhibits works by key artists and collectives in the visualization of the AIDS crisis, com General Idea, Keith Haring, Zoe Leonard, Alejandro Kuropatwa, Jesus Martinez Oliva, Donald Moffett i Yesterday Today. Activism, media narrative and contemporary art in the fight against AIDS. AU
