They will remember us in the future

Exhibition of works by artists from Bulgaria, Poland, Estonia, Russia, America and Turkey

Part of Sofia Queer Forum 2015 - Sweet Union
2-14 December 2015

 

Iskra Blagoeva, Alexander Gerginov, Nilbar Güreş, Daniela Kostova, Viktoria Lomasco, Carlos Motta, Karol Radziszewski, Joanna Rajkowska, Jaanus Samma, Radostin Sedevchev, Yasen Zgurovski

Queer box (curated by Venelin Shurelov, works by: Angel Chobanov and Martin Penev)

 

The exhibition shows the various types of relations between "I" and “You”. It represents a number of possible ways for people to be together, various "we”-s that create different notions of intimacy and family. The works included in it represent in one way or another forms of diversion from the generally accepted notions of a "normal" family. In this sense, they are queer (strange, odd) actions that demonstrate the wide scope of understanding about what a family might be: between the family-as-law that associates with tradition, social stereotypes and habits, and the family-as-project with a future-oriented vector as a personal, intimate way of sharing the world. The exhibition contains images and stories about love, longing, desire, empathy, happiness and/ or loneliness, which intertwine with broader topics concerning generations, cultural boundaries, and communities that are different in economic, social and psychological conditions and ways of life of the people involved.