Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovales curates exhibition at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, NYC

Image Details: Nadia Granados, Colombianización. Courtesy of the artist.

Image description: A nude figure poses sideways, naked from the waist down, holding a knife between their legs, their finger touching the tip of the knife evocatively. They wear a yellow soccer jersey, pulled up to their waist. Their head is not visible and they are on a blue backdrop.

INDECENCIA

SEP 16 - JAN 8

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York

INDECENCIA brings together a cohort of queer/rare* artists from Latin America and/or of Latin American descent and living in the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean or in-between spaces/identities, whose praxes center on performance art and ephemeral actions. From the perspective of several generations, countries, and sociopolitical contexts, these artists invite us to consider Latinidad/Latinxidad and its relationship to religion, enfleshment, and sexuality. Their inquiries extend—through videos, props, scripts, costumes, and other channels—to the disjointed corpus of an entire hemisphere where, for many, the colonized and the colonizer can easily wrestle within a single body.

* “Raro” is the curator’s translation of “queer” in Spanish. “Raro” means strange, weird, or unusual.

INDECENCIA has already been named as a must-see exhibition in Hyperallergic's Fall Art Guide and in Holland Cotter’s Fall round up in the New York Times:

“Finally, I’m mightily intrigued by something called “Indecencia” at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in Manhattan (Sept. 16-Jan. 15). A gathering of queer Latin American and Latino artists who specialize in performance art, it focuses on what the museum describes as a meeting of religion and sexuality, or “theologizing without underwear.’” Organized by the Dominican-born, Bronx-based conceptualist Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, founding director of the Interior Beauty Salon, it’s sure to be of interest at a time when religious belief threatens to dictate public policy in L.G.B.T.Q. matters.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/arts/design/latino-indigenous-art-fall-preview.html

Participating artists: Luis A., Arantxa Araujo, Arthur Avilés, Nao Bustamante, Susana Cook, Anna Costa e Silva and Nina Terra, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Marga Gomez, Félix González Torres, Nadia Granados (La Fulminante), Noelia Quintero and Rita Indiana, Carlos Martiel, Carlos Leppe, Elizabeth “MACHA” Marrero, Ivan Monforte, Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa, Charles Rice-González, Jesusa Rodríguez and Liliana Felipe, Carmelita Tropicana & Uzi Parnes & Ela Troyano, and Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis.

Curated by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles

Leslie-Lohman Museum strives to provide a welcoming environment to all visitors. External steps lead to our entrance doors: a wheelchair lift is available. All galleries are wheelchair-accessible, and a single-occupancy accessible restroom is located behind the visitor services desk: all restrooms are gender-neutral. Large print didactics are available.

To request access accommodations please contact info@leslielohman.org at least one week in advance of your planned visit.