Artist Pepe Miralles (Xàbia, 1959) opens at Sala Dormitori this Thursday. Center del Carmen in Valencia Exhibition I saw, The exhibition, curated by Alicante art historian and University of Murcia professor Isabel Tejeda, will remain open to the public Until February 18, 2024.
Pepe Miralles represents one of the most important artistic careers in Europe since the early 90s. According to AIDS as a social disease in the 90s and in the Valencian Community, He condemned how AIDS occurred by the media and society as a disease specific to the homosexual communityHis work has never left this line of power since 1996, intersecting and making visible in his work the strategies of the pharmaceutical industry or the political response to the epidemic, when the disease became chronic. Sick people of that time are what the artist calls today “Rocks”.
I saw It saves the phrase that gives the title of one of Francisco de Goya’s best-known engravings. Disasters of War Putting oneself in the shoes of a person experiencing a dramatic situation and describing the event from that position. And this is it (Catastrophe 45) was the continuation of the Aragonese painter. Forty years later, Pepe Miralles continues to accompany a disease that unfairly stigmatizes LGTBIQ+ groups in particular.
There are two topics he researches most: Pep Miralles (Jávea 1959): Social perspective on HIV and AIDS, participation in activist groups and production of cultural and visual content; sex and sexuality in public spaces, both documenting the use of residential areas cruising – sexual practices in public places – and the biography of those who use them.