Indecencia, exhibition, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY, September 16, 2022–January 8, 2023.
Indecencia is a provocative exhibition that embraces secular rituals, improper prayers, and indecorous redemptions. Through an heterogenous corpus of works, including videos, scripts, photographs, costumes, textile interventions, and installations, Indecencia builds an idiosyncratic sanctuary for the excesses that disruptively overflow the parameters of the heteronormative and colonial orders.
Curated by Nicolás Dumit Estévez, the exhibition brings together twenty-five Latin and Latinx artists from different generations to share their past and present work as a response to Marcella Althaus-Reid’s “indecent theology” that, departing from an improbable marriage between liberation theology and queer theory, problematizes the mythical multiple layers of oppressions in Latin America. Althaus-Reid explains: “Indecent Theology is the opposite to a sexual canonical theology, concerned with the regulation of amatory practices justified as normative by economic infrastructural models where anything outside hegemonic patriarchal heterosexuality is devalued...