Exhibition- The Q-Sides: 10th Year Anniversary
June 7 @ 7:00 pm – August 2 @ 6:00 pm
Galería de la Raza is pleased to present The Q-Sides: 10th Year Anniversary. This exhibition re-stages the East Side Story LP album covers Volumes 1-12 by centering queerness as the subjects of the popular vinyl collection of soul oldies in lowrider culture. The Q-Sides was conceived and created by Vero Majano, Brown Angel, and Kari Orvik.
Originally presented in the Summer 2015, The Q-Sides challenged the long-held heteronormative exclusivity within the lowrider culture to unveil a queer presence. The Q-sides was part of a project series presented by Galería de la Raza that included Por Vida by Manuel Paul, (a digital mural installation on the Bryant Street public art facing site) and the film Homeboy by Dino Dinco.
The polarizing reception these projects received transcended across local politics and social constructs, vis-à-vis social media and presented an opportunity to address the violent erasure of queerness within the Latiné community while propelling Latiné aesthetic possibilities. Today, the work is presented within a targeted national social-political context in which Queer and Trans existence is under attack. This ten year anniversary is a celebration of Queer resilience and as Jose Esteban Muñoz urges, a “call for the revivification of the queer political imagination”.