The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s fall exhibit will highlight Latino experiences by exploring queer spaces.
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego has announced its fall exhibition: “Visiones Nocturnas: Queer Nightlife in Contemporary Art,” open from Saturday, Sept 19 through Sunday, Jan 10.
The exhibit seeks to highlight Latino artists and explore the intersection of queer nightlife and contemporary art through works that explore the physicality of these queer nightlife spaces (dance clubs, dive bars, backyards and bathhouses) as critical to building resilience and community.
“Visiones Nocturnas,” meaning “night visions,” is named after the work of Andres Payan Estrada, whose project commemorates a decade of photographic research examining facets of queer nightlife along the US-Mexico border.
The new MCASD installation is the museum debut for the exhibit, which has recently been shown from Texas to Tijuana.
Nightlife is a “living archive,” Payan Estrada said in a press release. “I’m interested in how places shape us long after we’ve left them. … Every dance floor and nightlife space carry stories of friendship, desire, movement, grief, resistance and joy. These are spaces where communities create and transmit forms of belonging that extend well beyond the night itself.”
“Visiones Nocturnas” showcases an intergenerational and international grouping of artists whose work encompasses painting, performance, photography, sculpture, textile, collage, video and more. Artists featured in the exhibition include: Laura Aguilar, Vani Aguilar, Juan Arango Palacios, Amina Cruz, Martine Gutierrez, Jesús Hilario-Reyes, Xandra Ibarra, Teresa Margolles, Xelestial Moreno-Luz, Andres Payan Estrada, Guadalupe Rosales, Joey Terrill and Isa Ybarra.
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