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1990 © Lina Pallotta

Photography

Courtesy of the artist

Those years are brought back to mind by a series of photographs that photographer Lina Pallotta has over time dedicated to her friend Porpora Marcasciano, a sociologist, human right activist and president of the transgender movement Movimento Identità Transessuale, in a time suspended between the intimacy of a strong connection and the young feminine grace of a complex and unique identity.

1993 © Lina Pallotta

Photography

Courtesy of the artist

Lina Pallotta, a documentary photographer born in Italy, has been living in New York since the late 1980s and with her photographs tells a story of the daily and the mundane, bringing to the forefront the protagonists of the quieter stories. Among her well-known works is Porpora, a series of photographs dedicated to Porpora Marcasciano.

2017 © Xenia Perek

Video performance

De School, Amsterdam SWEAT, 2019, curated by Léon Kruijswijk
Courtesy of the artist and ADA, Rome

2019 © Xenia Perek

Solo performance ft. Arthur Guilleminot
7 min
Vertoon: Queer In Transition
Compagnie Theater, Amsterdam
photo by Raymond Van Mil
Courtesy of the artist and ADA, Rome

2020 © Diego Gualandris

Oil on canvas

Courtesy of the artist and ADA gallery, Rome

It is language, be it verbal or body language, that creates the short-circuit blessed with attracting the attention of all resistance, laying bare each face from its mask. When this "magic" power is recognised, change has already happened. The mask is already off. And in our time and place, where each diversity is labelled, language can be both the elastic that holds the mask in place or the hand that removes it. As in the works of Diego Gualandris and his masks whose perspective we cannot understand, is it I, or the person I am looking at, who is wearing the mask?

2019 © Diego Gualandris

Oil on canvas

Courtesy of the artist and ADA gallery, Rome

A mask tells us that for every behaviour deemed different a word exists that invites to cover-up, to not show, to hide. But the eyes, that observe the world and its progress, can choose to embrace, to understand and to love every change, in every moment of its determination, in each shade of pride and pridefulness.

2018 © Lorenzo Castore

Photography

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As do the eyes of the subject of the works of Lorenzo Castore, photographer whose research has encompassed many places: from apartments to streets, going from the darkness of mines to mountaintops, telling us intimate and never before told collective stories, shot in Italy, Poland, India, Cuba and New York.

2018 © Lorenzo Castore

Photography

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In the dyptich Betta Naan Stop! (Prateek Sachdeva) Delhi, India the camera is a first barrier separating the observer and the subject. A grate, almost resembling a cage, is the second hindrance. But the direct and melancholic magnetism of this powerful subject is able to shatter them both, finding a strong form of communication in the art of maquillage, and the valorisation of one's features and one's nature. A look that need not be classified, a change that must be collective.

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