GH. GAL AND HIROSHIMA

  • GH. GAL AND HIROSHIMA Presented by Ateliê Oriente (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) G and H are the initials of artist...

    GH. GAL AND HIROSHIMA

    Presented by Ateliê Oriente (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

     

    G and H are the initials of artist duo Gal (Marinelli Cipreste) and Hiroshima (Rodrigo Masina Pinheiro). Rodrigo, who owes her Japanese nickname to the fact that she has an appearance between genres, survived being stoned as a child for having asserted her non-standard identity. Gal is trans herself. Together, they fight to free their pasts from shame, and proudly choose life in a country where violence against the LGBTQIA+ people is still taking its toll. The duo uses the symbolic power of images to ward off trauma, finding a balance between the finesse of the story and the violence of the subject. In the series GH. Gal & Hiroshima, amidst a constellation of objects and gestures, a high heel shoe, symbol of a supposed “femininity”, becomes recurring evidence for the crime of not performing one’s assigned gender. 

  • CURATOR: Taous Dahmani Born 1990 in Paris, France. Lives and works between Paris, Marseille, and London, France/England. Taous Dahmani is...

    Portrait of Taous Dahmani © Lynn S.K.

    CURATOR: Taous Dahmani 
    Born 1990 in Paris, France.
    Lives and works between Paris, Marseille, and London, France/England.
     
    Taous Dahmani is a French, British and Algerian art historian, writer and curator specialising in photography. Her academic research focuses on the photographic representation of struggles and the struggle for photographic representations. Her projects mainly involve the links between photography and politics — such as the visual culture of protests, migratory narratives and intersectional feminist discourses. She has published in various scientific journals and art magazines. She regularly gives papers in academic conferences and holds public ‘in-conversations’ with photographers. Taous Dahmani is also editor and content advisor at The Eyes Publishing, a trustee of the Photo Oxford Festival, and on the editorial board of MAI: Visual Culture and Feminism.
  • ARTIST: Gal Cipreste Marinelli, born 1998 in São Gonçalo, Brazil. ARTIST: Rodrigo Masina Pinheiro, born 1987 in Rio de Janeiro,...

    Portrait of Gal & Hiroshima © Nana Moraes

    ARTIST: Gal Cipreste Marinelli, born 1998 in São Gonçalo, Brazil.
    ARTIST: Rodrigo Masina Pinheiro, born 1987 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
    Live and work in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
     
    Gal Cipreste Marinelli is a nonbinary trans visual artist, musician, and photographer. Their research addresses themes such as the inauguration of gender narratives, the fictionalization of reality, and monstrosity. 
     
    Rodrigo Masina Pinheiro is a visual artist and educator. They use various mediums in their work, such as photography, film essays, and literature. Their research addresses LGBTQIA+ childhood and the ontologies of the body disobeying its gender despite heterosexist regimes, incarcerated subjectivities, and the various processes of narrative mutilation.
     
    Along with Rodrigo Masina Pinheiro, they were awarded with the PhMuseum 2021 Photography Grant.

  • 2022-Gal Cipreste Marinelli and Rodrigo Masina Pinheiro. GH, from the series GH, Gal and Hiroshima, 2020. Courtesy of the artists.

  • Gal Cipreste Marinelli and Rodrigo Masina Pinheiro. Gal, from the series GH, Gal and Hiroshima, 2020. Courtesy of the artists.

  • Gal Cipreste Marinelli and Rodrigo Masina Pinheiro. Natureza Morta, from the series GH, Gal and Hiroshima, 2020. Courtesy of the artists.

  • Gal Cipreste Marinelli and Rodrigo Masina Pinheiro. Sculpture of fabric and rubble, from the series GH, Gal and Hiroshima, 2019. Courtesy of the artists.