Exhibitions

Queer stories in House of Chappaz

More than forty artists in an exhibition that activates links between generations, memory and dissidence through queer practices.

Keith Haring

bonart barcelona - 06/06/25

The House of Chappaz gallery is once again shaking up the art scene with a new proposal that puts on the table topics that have often, and unfortunately, been left out of the usual focus. This time it does so with Articulations of Desire, Vol. 2, an exhibition that brings together more than forty artists who identify with this broad umbrella and who participate in a kind of open conversation, full of nuances, between generations, contexts and diverse practices. The project, conceived and articulated by curator Eduardo García Nieto , is committed to a shared journey that connects personal stories, dissident aesthetics and ways of resistance from creativity and memory.

Queer stories in House of Chappaz Carlos Pazos

Barcelona hosts this second chapter of the exhibition, which began in Valencia in May 2024. If there the focus revolved around the construction of identities, here the emphasis is on the temporal dimension as a meeting space. The proposal invites us to think of time not as a straight line, but as a kind of conversation where ancient practices and very current ways of doing things coexist. And in this shared space, memory is a tool of resistance, not to preserve, but to reactivate knowledge and experiences.

Queer stories in House of Chappaz Mari Chordà

The exhibition draws on diverse references, some quite particular, such as Victorian-era floriography, the cryptic language of the British Polari or the symbolism of Vita Sackville-West's white gardens. All of this serves to talk about forms of communication that have known how to move on the margins, finding ways to say when saying was difficult. “History is not a hard material, but rather flexible and porous. So easily moldable that many people use this quality to twist it until it becomes unrecognizable,” writes García Nieto.

Queer stories in House of Chappaz 'Una constel·lació de veus queer' a House of Chappaz ©Roberto Ruiz

Alongside recognized figures such as Tom of Finland , Keith Haring , Nazario or Pepe Espaliú , more recent voices such as Raisa Maudit , Hodei Herreros , Fito Conesa or the El Palomar collective are added. Far from following a chronological logic, the exhibition proposes a plot made up of gestures, references and languages that intersect and recognize each other. The exhibition is, in this sense, a network articulated from dialogue and complicity, as García Nieto expresses: “I have learned to write with the words of others and the works, which have been shared with such generosity, have allowed me to explain myself a little more.”