QUEERANTINE | Inspire

Tata Barreto was inspired by the relationship between the isolation imposed by quarantine and isolation routinely imposed on bodies that are outside the heteronorm, here represented by the persona of a Drag King.

While the heteronormative standard excludes those who behave or express themselves different from their dissident bodies.

On the other hand, the pandemic does not exclude any subject, and the isolation of melancholy can reach everyone, regardless of how they perform their gender.

The project "House arrest" comes from an intense creative and reflective process of the artist Joice Mendes during quarantine. The book "31 days" expresses the accumulation of feelings arising from the pandemic.

Clara Capua's images, which inspired the Queerentena exhibition, are part of a series of self-portraits as a kind of personal diary. Clara was invited to take part in the exhibition.

From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the artist inserts the mask element in her work.

Clara uses her cellphone to explore movements, ie, the images are first built in the body and then go on paper - habits of a visual artist who is also an actress.

Once filmed, she selects frames and transposes them to the paper using graphite to then scan them.

The artist develops a narrative research starting from her place as the daughter of South Korean immigrants in Brazil to understand the reverberations of these displacements and the search for identity of subsequent generations.

In this project, Patricia Baik explores the sign of the house and the promises she raises comfort, nurturing and care.

But now in isolation, the contradictions become more explicit between this house and the outside world, and in the face of promises not always met, the longing for contact and comfort grow.

In the work "discomposition of affections", the Transe Collective performs a deep dive in itself and the other to propose reflections on the shared experience of social, bodyly and affectionate isolation of a couple of gay men.

To miss someone, go through a breakup, look for affection, a touch, an exchange of glances, to self-flirt and to meet itself. These were the inspirations of illustrator Stephanie Gaddi Pollo to create the project Self Love.

Chico Monteiro was inspired by photos and album covers of the singer Linn da Quebrada in domestic settings a "A casa de Linn."

In this work the artist was inspired by a picture of Linn wearing a mask.

The artist creates her work from photographs produced by her and her girlfriend during a pandemic.

In a second moment images received from friends are incorporated.

The collection of drawings depicts the everyday life during social isolation.

Abaporu, mythical figure created and evoked by Tarsila do Amaral, is the character that Vinicius Monsoon appropriates to produce this work.

Recreating one of the icons of modern Brazilian art movement, the artist proposes a reflection on the transition period we are living.

"The work refers to the current modern subject of major urban centers, reclusive, reflective, melancholic, waiting for the" plague "pass to find out what is to come tomorrow.