QUEERANTINE | Expire

Cheo Gonzáles based himself on the report of a trans friend about their permanent state of isolation

He creates portraits of people wearing masks or gags:. Mirrored, forced to look at themselves in the expectation of finding something without knowing exactly what it is

The pictures and the title were taken from the measurement of the maximum distance that the artist currently travels between his home and the market.

Erick France addresses the social place where he is inserted as a young, adult, gay person from the periphery of the East Zone of São Paulo.

During quarantine he photographs the landscape and situations that call his attention around his home.

This work was inspired by Czech photographer Josef Dudek, exiled in the period of World War II.

Erick selected thirty images, arranged in diptych format, creating a narrative from the combination of two images.

This work was inspired by the work of Octave Tassaert, French painter who portrayed eroticism and other social "evils". Julia Aiz utilizes layers of combinations of Cyan, Magenta and Yellow, the three basic colors used in the electronic process of reading images.

Vibrant colors are an intentional "registry error" that brings a pop aesthetic to work. The title of the work refers to the acronym representing the CMYK color set and the word Cuir / Queer.

The work is part of a series that aims to reflect about the limits and controls imposed by different powers instituted on the body, including in the contexts of epidemics.

Akira Umeda proposes reflections to juxtapose the idea of ​​socially imposed isolation from the time of HIV isolation under way in those COVID-19 times.

Rodrigo Kupfer uses photographs of a Japanese book published in 1977 to make interventionsw with water based paint.

In the work, human figures are applied and illustrated as a way to represent what these men feel, the lack of contact and touch, the loneliness and the memory of each one.

His work "Lack of tact and whisper" integrated the international #socialvirus action.

Where artists donated part of the funds collected from the sale of their work to people in situations of social vulnerability.

Leiner Hoki connects art and politics using text and image files. The work was inspired by a situation of lesbophobia experienced by the artist, when the father of his girlfriend found out about their LGBTI activism +, said that she should never do anything that requires her to cover her face, refering to an alleged "illegality . "

Today, the act of covering the face and masking oneself moved to the public debate, gaining legal status.

In this series, the artist Rick Rodrigues uses disposable masks as a base for embroidery. The work is inspired by the fresco "The Creation of Adam" by Michelangelo Buonarotti painted around 1511, on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

The gesture refers to the general expression recently adopted as a result of COVID-19 - social isolation "Withdraw to not affect. Withdraw for affection."

In parallel to the forced isolation and the fear of death associated with Covid-19, the project proposes a reflection on living as an amputatee in a segregated, racist and sexit society, where the first lesson of survival is to learn to be alone.

After ten days of quarantine, producing love and pain, Keila Orona was inspired by the music of Pink Floyd to create the project "Art For The Soul."

The project was inspired by the movie & quot; Queen & amp; Slim & quot ;, by the director Lena Whaite. During quarantine in their home, the artist Sabrina Savani experiences a period of intense production, in which this work is inserted.