pedro neves marques
public reading: sex as care and other viral poems
Gasworks, 15 Jun
4 - 6pm
No booking required
A public reading with Pedro Neves Marques and writer and researcher Filipa Ramos to mark the closing of Pedro's first UK solo exhibition It Bites Back, which explores the trauma of biological warfare against the backdrop of the Zika virus epidemic and the increasingly palpable threat against queer lives in Brazil and elsewhere. The artist will be reading a selection of poems from his upcoming book Sex as Care and Other Viral Poems.
In Neves Marques’ book, polyamorous encounters and the intimacy of queer lives run parallel to the history of modern science. In his words, 'these viral poems were my own, personal way of projecting politics onto nature and culture. I felt the need for intimacy. The reasons were multiple. I could easily answer it with my own emotional exhaustion—and, much more importantly, of those around me when in Brazil - as well as with my own feelings towards gender, fluidity and feminism.'
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Gasworks
155 Vauxhall Street
London SE11 5RH
