Photography, performance and installations exhibition
Decide-T Lesbian' Association, Gay, Bisexuals and
Transsexuals of Alicante presents an installation and photography named
Invisibles Exhibition, from Wednesday, March
31, in the Miguel Hernández Conference Room at the Alicante Branch of
the University of Alicante, photographs and performance by Manuel Antonio
Velandia Mora and doll construction and installation by Andrea Cano.
The exhibition presents compositions that resemble sexual
contents, at some moments the resemblance is vague and at others it is clearly
evident, right where nobody wants it, just the way it happens to those people
who have decided to transition to the full existence of themselves.
The photographs and installations are of nude Ken® and
Barbie® dolls that, unlike those distributed commercially, we let you see their
genitals, and images of natural elements in which the spectators see strong
sexual resemblances.
According to Velandia “There are people whose existence
society would like to deny, and who therefore become invisible. Those who do
not fit into the mold are often isolated, sometimes against their will.
Sexuality though an eminently human experience is often observed in nature’s
other realities and can be reflected in certain natural structures or in
artificial constructions built by humans”.
These dolls belong to the world of unreality, especially the
Barbies®, perverse and sexual in themselves. They belong to a world of
unreality even more unreal. This body, impossible to forget, reminds us that
other bodies are possible, that other bodies are normal and real: bodies in
transition, bodies that desire to change, bodies of transvestites, bodies of
transsexuals, bodies of intersexuals, bodies that are often denied, bodies that
we refuse to see, bodies made invisible as a way of denying the existence of
those beings who to us are strangers, not because they are, but because we
refuse to accept diversity, uniqueness and peculiarity.
The dolls carry on a non-verbal, sensual and sexual
communication; for those other women and those other men whose frustrated
desires are steeped in consumerism, where perfect beauty and absolute silence
allow us to meditate in a reality we refuse or are required to deny, and
between the internal and the contextual.
Velandia asserts “We tend to see penises, vaginas, anuses,
breasts, where there are no bodies, where the whims of nature or human
constructions allow us to wander, watch and enjoy without having to reference
the real people, without having to give explanations for our own existence or
the existence of the beings we love or reject”.
Photographs and performance: Manuel Antonio Velandia Mora.
Doll construction and installation: Andrea Cano.
Graphic Design: Tico Morales.
Translation: Catherine Nicholls Baeza.
Decide-T: Lesbian' Gay, Transsexuals and Bisexuals
Association of Alicante.
www.decidet.org
31 March on 28 April 2010
Chamber Miguel Hernández
Headquarters University of Alicante
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