In his socially engaged and intimate art, Carlos Motta attempts to document and redress the exclusions of history. Drawing on archival research and engagements with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities from Ukraine to Norway to South Korea to Colombia, he tracks the effects of colonial violence, the suppression of gender and sexual difference, and economic inequality. Working in film, sculpture, photography, and performance, and incorporating oral history and interviews into his practice, Motta engages with ephemeral and partial evidence in order to bring impossible lives into representation. The target of this effort is the contemporary discourse of tolerance, which incorporates and neutralizes gender, sexual, racial, and national difference. Across a remarkably diverse body of work, Motta mines alternative histories in order to disrupt the present and to open new futures. From April 21 to May 21, 2016, PPOW Gallery in New York City featured a solo show by Motta called Deviations. The show included early largeformat photographic selfportraits; a statue called Hermaphrodite (8) based on a nineteenthcentury photograph by Nadar of an intersex person; a set of miniature gold figures based on preconquest phallic artifacts called Towards a Homoerotic Historiography (2014); and the 2015 video Deseos (fig. 1), which he conceived and scripted with the anthropologist Maya Mikdashi. The video, which plays on a suspended largescale screen in a darkened gallery, brings to life an imaginary exchange between two nineteenthcentury figures: Martina, a Colombian woman charged with hermaphroditism and sins against nature, and Nour, a woman living in Beirut who is married to her female lover’s brother. Interweaving national and personal struggles for selfdetermination, Deseos is an example of Motta’s efforts to bring to life the experience of gender and sexual outsiders and to give history a body.

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历史的密室：希瑟·洛夫采访卡洛斯·莫塔

在他的社会参与和亲密艺术中，卡洛斯莫塔试图记录和纠正历史的排斥。他利用档案研究和与从乌克兰到挪威、韩国到哥伦比亚的女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和跨性别 (LGBT) 社区的接触，追踪殖民暴力的影响、压制性别和性别差异以及经济不平等。从事电影、雕塑、摄影和表演，并将口述历史和采访融入他的实践中，莫塔使用短暂和部分的证据，以将不可能的生活带入表现。这项努力的目标是当代的宽容话语，它包含并消除了性别、性、种族和民族差异。在非常多样化的工作中，莫塔挖掘不同的历史，以颠覆现在并开启新的未来。2016 年 4 月 21 日至 5 月 21 日，纽约市 PPOW 画廊举办了莫塔个展，名为 Deviations。展览包括早期的大幅面自画像；一座名为雌雄同体的雕​​像 (8)，基于 19 世纪 Nadar 拍摄的双性人照片；一组基于征服前的阳具手工艺品的微型金人偶，名为 Towards a Homoerotic Historiography (2014)；以及 2015 年的视频 Deseos（图 1），这是他与人类学家 Maya Mikdashi 一起构思和编写的。这段视频在昏暗的画廊中悬挂的大屏幕上播放，使两位 19 世纪人物之间的想象交流栩栩如生：玛蒂娜 (Martina) 是一名被指控为雌雄同体并违背自然的哥伦比亚妇女，以及努尔 (Nour)，一个住在贝鲁特的女人，嫁给了她女情人的兄弟。Deseos 将民族和个人的自决斗争交织在一起，是 Motta 努力将性别和性局外人的经验带入生活并赋予历史实体的一个例子。