Una història americana

The exhibition "Marion Scemama / David Wojnarowicz: Una història americana" is built from historical and current perspectives on issues such as gender, identity and creation as an emergence in the face of death, and the affirmation of a counterculture in the sociopolitical context of the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s. Eight themes have been defined to reflect on the unique relationship between David Wojnarowicz and Marion Scemama, in which the latter is revealed as an artist in her own right and not as a colleague or mere assistant to Wojnarowicz, who has since become an iconic figure in contemporary art. All the works in the exhibition reflect a well-intentioned society of the Reagan years and its conservative revolution, governed by violence, money, power and social success, against the backdrop of the growing AIDS epidemic. It is also about the cultural fever of a New York City that reinvents itself and emerges as a new urban centre inhabited by a liquid, rebellious and anticapitalist youth. These works cut across all the media and the various forms of expression of the era to raise awareness of and give voice to the values and demands of a community situated on the margins of the social order. For more information about the exhibition "Una història americana", visit the La Virreina website.