This article aims to highlight the relationship that exists between art as an artistic practice that reveals identities and dissident discourses, which through its execution is capable of collaborating with the construction and elaboration of reflections on homoaffection, bonding and sexuality. outside the imposed regulations. Art has the capacity and potential to reveal discourses that help the artist and the viewer to express discourses in the search for understanding and the fight for equal rights for the LGBTIQ+ community and overcome homo / bi / trans hatred in the society.
Through the review of archives of visual works, where art has recorded dissident memory in Chile in its constant context of transformation, we seek to analyze photography as a memorial: beginning with the historical criminalization of homosexuality and its subsequent emancipation before the heteronormative system. In that sense, this article aims to emphasize the importance of registration and artistic action to enhance sexual diversity through art as a field of expression and identity self-determination in society
Keywords:
sex-affectivity, art, photography, queer-punk, public space, memory.
San Martín Jacob, M. (2025). Criminals of Affection: queer emancipation through art and public space. Nomadías, (33), 295–319. Retrieved from https://actascoloquiogiannini.uchile.cl/index.php/NO/article/view/77900
