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On Death

The exit from this labyrinth is an unsweet death, almost like falling suddenly into the void, after a long wandering that leaves a feeling of exhaustion and numbness at the same time. Coming out of the closet seems liberating, but in the end it is just a mirage or an oasis.

But not all those who wander are lost. This wandering on death row or that walking on a tightrope, as the tightrope walker does, augurs a hopeful death that will give way to eir resurrection.

During adolescence I found refuge in the music of the group Anthony and The Johnsons. I did not understand exactly what she was saying or why I felt attracted to the stories that her songs told, until I recognized the story of her experience as a transgender person.

I’m a bird girl 

I’m a bird girl 

I’m a bird girl 

I’m a bird girl now

I’ve got my heart 

Here in my hands 

I’ve got my heart 

Here in my hands now 

I’ve been searching 

For my wings some time 

I’m gonna be born 

I’m gonna be born 

Into soon the sky 

Into soon the sky 

‘Cause I’m a bird girl 

And the bird girls go to heaven 

I’m a bird girl 

And the bird girls can fly 

Bird girls can fly

Bird girls can fly

Bird girls can fly

Anohni, 2005. I’m a Bird Now.

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Habitació Rosa (La exposició) - Habitación Rosa (La exposición) - Pink Room (The exhibition)

Habitació Rosa (La exposició) a noticiari d'IB3.Habitación Rosa (La exposición) en las noticias de IB3.Pink Room (The exhibition) on TV, the news of IB3.EL ...

Pink Room the exhibition at El Roser, supported by Ajuntament de Ciutadella and Consell Insular de Menorca and produced by D Loves The Sodomites Studio.

Images by the autonomical tv channel IB3 from the Balearic Islands.

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Biography

D Loves The Sodomites is a transdisciplinary artist born in Minorca (1990) graduated in Fine Arts (UB) and Master in Art Education (UCM). E has lived and studied in cities such as Barcelona, Madrid, London, Paris and New York.

Eir work has been shown in theaters and festivals throughout Europe, such as Francesc Català-Roca Space (Barcelona, 2013); Revela-T Festival (Barcelona, 2014); Analogmania (Romania, 2015); Analogue Festival (London, 2015); at Rissaga New Wave Of Minorcan Artists at El Roser (Menorca, 2015); Miró Foundation (Mallorca, 2017); Nau Bostik (Barcelona, 2016); at the exhibition Refinement Begginings curated by El Palomar at Casal Solleric (Mallorca, 2018); at Where Does Reality Resides? at Es Baluard (Mallorca, 2019); e was interviewed in the book A Tiro de Piedra: Acercar lo Posible, edited by Es Baluard (Mallorca, 2019); e was a finalist twice at The Young Arts Contest of the Balearic Islands; e has been awarded with research and creation grants from Consell Insular de Menorca, Institut d’Estudis Balearics, Macba’s Study Centre (CED), Nau Estruch, Eima, Gamba Z’AIR, Harvestworks, etc.

At the beggining of 2021 e released digitally and physically a visual album with the same title as the shows, a project that has started to be toured in the form of a performance-concert at Sons de Nit Festival in Palma, at the Pride of Alaior, at Festival Emergències, etc.

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Pink Room

Pink Room is an anthological and retrospective exhibition that shows the work of the last ten years of production of D Loves The Sodomites, by following a circular itinerary based on Campbell’s Monomite. The show immerses us and guides us along the artist’s phases during eir life journey, through performance, analog photography, video, sound and writings.

This project represents and dissects the process, from denial to acceptance, faced by the subject during the construction of oneself identity, as a result of a long journey of introspection and self-knowledge. Thus, it deconstructs and subverts, in its essence, the conception and the binary representation of gender and sexuality, in the middle of a patriarchal system. 

It also highlights the importance of being born in an island like Menorca and growing as a dissident individual, by considering the small dimensions of the island, the isolation and the fact of being surrounded by water and nature.

Pink Room pretends to undermine the concept of power as a principle of male domination, by questioning the imagery of femininity that patriarchy has built and imposed on every being that does not respond to its canons and rules. It also set into question and reflects upon the binary representation and conception of gender and sexuality as a tool of hierarchization and segregation.

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Habitació Rosa (la exposició) - El Roser - Aj. Ciutadella - Full de Sala - Cat

Pink Room poster and booklet. Written by D Loves The Sodomites and edited by Ajuntament de Ciutadella, 2021.

November 15th - January 5th of 2022.

Exhibition at El Roser, supported by Ajuntament de Ciutadella and Consell Insular de Menorca and produced by D Loves The Sodomites Studio.

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Habitació Rosa (El Viatge de l'antiheroi) - Catàleg expo - Sala St Antoni - Aj. Maó - cat esp en fr

Pink Room. The Journey of the Antihero book. Written by D Loves The Sodomites and edited by Ajuntament de Maó, 2022.

April 16th - May 21th of 2022.

Exhibition at Sala Sant Antoni, supported by Ajuntament de Maó and Consell Insular de Menorca and produced by D Loves The Sodomites Studio.

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PINK ROOM

HABITACIÓ ROSA

HABITACIÓN ROSA

CHAMBRE ROSE

November 5th - January 5th of 2021. 

Exhibition at El Roser, supported by Ajuntament de Ciutadella and Consell Insular de Menorca and produced by D Loves The Sodomites Studio.

Special thanks to Escola d’Art de Menorca.

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PINK ROOM. The journey of the antihero.

HABITACIÓ ROSA. El viatge de l’antiheroi.

HABITACIÓN ROSA. El viaje del antihéroe.

CHAMBRE ROSE. Le voyage de l’antihéros.

Education Program organized by Tomeu Sánchez, Silvia Deyta from Transverxia Menorca and Elo Nàger from Ses Foneres.

Speakers: Elo Nàger, Clara Martínez, Vicent Lozáno and D Loves The Sodomites.

April 16th - May 21th of 2022.

Exhibition at Sala Sant Antoni, supported by Ajuntament de Maó and Consell Insular de Menorca and produced by D Loves The Sodomites Studio.

Special thanks to Escola d’Art de Menorca.