the BEAUTY.
communities in the world, especially under its notoriously homophobic President Jair Bolsonaro. Which is why it's vital work to document the marginalized queers who're constantly at risk for simply being themselves., this means using portraiture to document — and artistically enhance — an othered community that often relies on fantasy to escape from the qualms of reality., is a survey of nearly 100 subjects and shows the power of existing outside social norms inside his home country.
In Brazil, Furtado says there are a lot of talented LGBTQ artists"using their expressions as a mechanism of preservation of heritage and amplification of what might be understood as beauty." In his portraits, this shows in the ways subjects wear their hair through color and cut; the ways they subvert makeup with technicolor lipsticks, shadows and more; the ways they dress their bodies and pierce their features and even pose behind Furtado's lens.
Latin America"lives under the influence of a strong colonized and Christian perception of the body and possibilities," according to Furtado, so these types of"adornment and excess" are typically deemed by the majority as"futile" or"vain."This opposition is everywhere in Brazil, and forces identities, experiences and practices into binaries:"men or women, biological or artificial, editorial or journalistic.
"I'm interested in the use of the portrait as an extension of the journalistic form, pursuing new possible places [or] friction between the imaginary and what's understood as real," he says."In my work, fantasy and reality are never opposed, but operate in parallel."
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