Carlos Motta (b. 1978, Colombia) is a multidisciplinary artist, documenting the social conditions and political struggles of sexual, gender, and ethnic minority communities, challenging normative discourses through acts of self-representation. As a historian of untold narratives, Motta is deeply committed to researching the struggles of post-colonial subjects and societies. His work encompasses a variety of media, including video, installation, sculpture, drawing, web-based projects, performance, and symposia.

Collecting time, sharing practice

Pleas of resistance is the first major European museum exhibition devoted to a body of work that unfolds through the exploration of different fields and media. Featuring over twenty-five years of artistic practice, the exhibition combines early photographic self-portraits with more recent video performances and installations presented in four intersectional chapters. These address pre-Hispanic homoeroticism,the politics of care as spaces for queer liberation, acts of self-determination beyond the human, as well as storytelling around silenced histories as modes of knowledge sharing mutual sustenance and rebellion.

History against history

Permeating the totality of the artist’s work is a firm commitment to minority communities of dissident identities and their struggles against erasure and epistemicide. Often engaging in artistic collaborations, Motta realises the potential for social change through fabulation and performative rewritings of history, consistently eroding official narratives in a journey that is always blasphemous, bodily and political.