Skeiv Verden welcomes our members to see a performance by Nayara Leite and the art exhibition Høstutstillingen!
On Sunday the 10th of September Skeiv Verden invites our members for a guided tour of the art exhibition Høstutstillingen, including the performance Homodagene by Nayara Leite.
Photo: Nayara Leite
Time and place: Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsveien 17, Oslo. Sunday 10 September 12:00.
Free entrance for Skeiv Verden members.
We meet outside Kunstnernes Hus at 12:00 and enter together to see the exhibition including the performance Homodagene by Nayara Leite. Artist and member of the Skeiv Verden central board Maya Økland will hold a guided tour in the exhibition.
About the performance:
Homodagene (2022; banner and performance, 15 min) is Nayara Leite's response to a photograph found at Skeivt Arkiv (the Norwegian Queer Archive) depicting a protest during “Homodagene” in Bergen in 1983. The photo shows one of the protesters carrying a sign with Jeg er glad jeg er homo (I am glad I am gay) written on it. Forty years after the photo was taken, Leite proposes to raise questions related to intersectionality and to explore what has changed within the realm of discussions among the LGBTQ+ community. Her research is inspired by Audre Lorde, who wrote: “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” The performance also criticises corporations who use the struggles of the LGBTQ+ community to profit during Pride month.
Nayara Leite (b. 1989) is a Brazilian artist and writer based in Bergen. She holds an MFA from the Bergen Art Academy and an MA in Photojournalism & Documentary Photography from the London College of Communication. Nayara works across text, performance, analogue photography, video and installation. Through autobiographical narrative, political news, letters to close friends and archival material, she produces a portrayal of the reality in which the LGBTQ+ community lives in Brazil and in Norway.
The performance is supported by Skeiv Verden.
Facebook event for the exhibition: https://www.facebook.com/events/1814838652279958/?ref=newsfeed