ficciones patógenas
Fri, May 30
|Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
How do colonial fictions still shape our bodies and land? ficciones patógenas brings radical resistance to the fore through Indigenous and queer art.
Time & Location
May 30, 2025, 7:00 AM – Jul 27, 2025, 10:50 PM
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, 26 Wooster St, New York, NY 10013, USA
About the event
Running from March 14 to July 27, 2025, ficciones patógenas is a powerful and timely exhibition examining how colonial narratives have pathologized queer, trans, Black, and Indigenous people and their relationships to land, the nonhuman, and one another. Presented as part of the Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative, this show is hosted at a participating NYC cultural venue and curated by Stamatina Gregory and Georgie Sánchez.
The exhibition's title—Spanish for “pathogenic fictions”—refers to the colonial-era myths that framed nonconforming bodies and ancestral ways of being as unnatural. These fictions served as justifications for centuries of dispossession and violence, and continue to permeate today’s legal, religious, political, and cultural institutions across Abya Yala (the Indigenous Kuna name for the Americas).
Featured works explore:
The intersections of gender nonconformity and colonialism
Medical and ideological violence imposed on bodies and land
Resistance practices rooted in Indigenous knowledge and hybrid aesthetics