"We Don’t Do This" at MO museum
On March 9th at the MO museum, exhibition "We Don’t Do This. Intimacy, Norms and Fantasies in Baltic Art" was opened. During the long decades of Soviet occupation, sexuality-related content and discussion were widely censored from the public. According to a famous catchphrase, there was no sex in the USSR. We ask why was sex so suppressed and what kind of love was allowed? How different are the region’s public notions of intimacy, gender, love and sexuality today? "We Don’t Do This. Intimacy, Norms and Fantasies in Baltic Art" will explore the shifts and changes in representations of gender, family and sexuality, marked by back-and-forth loosening and re-enforcement of norms throughout the Soviet era and beyond. Two of the works for the exhibition were lent by TARTLE.
Curators
Inga Lāce, Adomas Narkevičius, Rebeka Põldsam
On March 9th at the MO museum, exhibition "We Don’t Do This. Intimacy, Norms and Fantasies in Baltic Art" was opened. During the long decades of Soviet occupation, sexuality-related content and discussion were widely censored from the public. According to a famous catchphrase, there was no sex in the USSR. We ask why was sex so suppressed and what kind of love was allowed? How different are the region’s public notions of intimacy, gender, love and sexuality today? "We Don’t Do This. Intimacy, Norms and Fantasies in Baltic Art" will explore the shifts and changes in representations of gender, family and sexuality, marked by back-and-forth loosening and re-enforcement of norms throughout the Soviet era and beyond. Two of the works for the exhibition were lent by TARTLE.
Curators
Inga Lāce, Adomas Narkevičius, Rebeka Põldsam
