Marion Scemama/David Wojnarowicz: An American Story

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Image courtesy of Palau de La Virreina.

The exhibition Marion Scemama/David Wojnarowicz: An American Story is constructed from the historical and current perspectives of issues of gender, identity, creation as an emergency in the face of death, and the affirmation of a counterculture in the sociopolitical context of the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s. Eight themes were defined to reflect on the unique relationship between David Wojnarowicz and Marion Scemama, revealing the latter as an artist in her own right and not as a sidekick or mere assistant to Wojnarowicz, who has since become an iconic figure in contemporary art. 

All the works in the exhibition reflect a well-meaning society under the Reagan years and its conservative revolution, governed by violence, money, power, and social success, against the backdrop of the growing AIDS epidemic. This is also the cultural fever of a New York City reinventing itself and emerging as a new urban hub inhabited by a rebellious, fluid, and anti-capitalist youth. These works intersect all media and the diverse forms of expression of the time to raise awareness and make heard the values and cries of a community on the margins of the social order.

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