Dark room with two monitors on plinths and two round illuminated signs, one blue and one red, with restroom figures

Amor marginal

16.05 — 14.06.2015 · CAAA, Guimarães · Ana Santos and Paulo Aureliano da Mata

The margin is the privilege place that the centre can not occupy.

The general distinction between male and female gender goes beyond the biological nature; it includes behaviours, the clothes you are supposed to wear, how much you earn, besides many other things. But how do we see a person that decides to dress and behave like someone that we usually identify as belonging to the opposite sex? How do we classify this outlier? Should we consider it to be a "hybrid" being or should we expand the gender's list? Does society in some way controls, stigmatizes, and strictly defines this gender division?

If we travel back in time, to the year of 1975, the first movie directed by Serge Gainsbourg, Je t'aime moi non plus, translated to Portuguese, Amor Marginal, was a history about the impossibility of loving due to existing dogmas. The works from both artists Ana Santos and Paulo Aureliano da Mata do fit in this marginality since they reject this gender distinction dictated by society, and also because they share experiences and traumas that are far away from acceptable moral conventions.

Credits

Artists
Ana Santos e Paulo Aureliano da Mata
Curated by
Susana Rodrigues
Dates
16.05.2015 — 14.06.2015
Venue
CAAA Centre for Art and Architecture Affairs Guimarães – Portugal

Installation views

Installation view of AMOR MARGINAL, CAAA, Guimarães, Portugal, 2015.
Installation view of AMOR MARGINAL, CAAA, Guimarães, Portugal, 2015.
Installation view of AMOR MARGINAL, CAAA, Guimarães, Portugal, 2015.
Amor marginal · Susana Rodrigues