Artist based in London: Queer and street art.
Artist based in London: Queer and street art.
The “Cathedral” Project consists of six collections: Passions, Martyrdom, Confessionals, Religious Ecstasy, The Body of Christ and The Bible, which analyze the connections between the Christian tradition and queer eroticism.
Within the “Cathedral” project, “Martyrdom” draws a parallel to analyze how queer desire infiltrates sexual repression in traditional Christian art.
Martyrdom compares photographs taken by Cheo Gonzalez over the past 15 years with images of Christian sacred art from the 14th to 19th centuries.
As in the biblical passion, here Jesus is exposed in the street, without a religious context, awaiting the reaction of contemporary passersby.
Within the “Cathedral” project, the “Religious Ecstasy” exhibition explores Christian traditions such as the lactation of the saints or confession, seeking to reveal their underlying erotic elements.
A man kneeling before another in a booth, connecting through a hole in the wall in search of a celestial encounter. Gloryholes vs. confessional, analyzed through installations.
A collective project aiming to interpret canonical Christian scriptures through images created by contemporary artists.
A series of 12 paintings that were originally displayed as prints on the walls of Brasília between 2014 and 2015 during the unstable political scenario that would later lead to the 2016 coup d’état in Brazil.
Since 2018, The Queer Museum has been a curatorial initiative by Cheo Gonzalez aimed at providing visibility and connecting queer artists from around the world.
A photographic exploration of the culture of celebrations in Brazil, where music, food, sex or religion are transformed into collective outlets that enable facing the realities of everyday life.
A series of self-portraits were exhibited in the street and then reclaimed to create a dialogue between self-image and public perception.
1,000 meters was the maximum distance the artist could walk per week (from his house to the supermarket) during the first year of quarantine. And these are the portraits of the people he saw.
