Gallery Talks
Opening Reception for Love Here
Splitting the North Gallery into halves, Love Here represents two moments of the same movement, two spaces that together tell the story of how queer public space has shifted in São Paulo. One side is dedicated to Largo do Arouche, a historic square representing LGBTQ+ memory and resistance in the city center; the other to Praça Roosevelt, a vibrant, plaza less than a mile away, a node on the axis that connects the the city’s downtown to its wealthier west side. Both are of great symbolic, social and cultural importance in the city. And yet in recent years, Praça Roosevelt has become a vital center of activity for young queer people while Largo do Arouche has struggled. By placing the two in dialogue, this exhibition explores their affinities and tensions—and celebrates the divergent bodies that yearn for spaces of fraternization, desire, encounter, celebration and existence.
