Alejandro González
2024.253

2024.253

© 2008 Alejandro González Méndez

2024.253
2024.253
CultureCuban
Titles
  • from the series Conducta impropia
  • from the seres Improper Behaivior
Date2008
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 23 × 22 15/16 in. (58.4 × 58.3 cm)
Frame (outer): 30 3/8 × 29 15/16 × 1 1/4 in. (77.2 × 76.1 × 3.1 cm)
Credit LineThe Madeleine P. Plonsker Collection, Gift of Madeleine and Harvey Plonsker
Object number2024.253
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 314
On view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Not without setbacks, major advances in LGBTQ+ legal rights had occurred in Cuba by the 2000s, and most legal prohibitions against homosexuality had been lifted. Alejandro González was on hand for the second annual event in observance of the International Day Against Homophobia in 2008. There, he carried out the first part of a series titled Improper Behavior— large, extreme close-up portraits of participants, so close that the subjects’ gender becomes hard to identify. Although frontal and straightforward as a mugshot, they are nonetheless assertive of power rather than subservient to it.

 

A pesar de las adversidades, en la década de 2000 habían ocurrido importantes avances en los derechos legales LGBTQ+ en Cuba, y la mayoría de las pro- hibiciones contra la homosexualidad habían sido levantadas. En 2008, Alejandro González estuvo presente en el segundo evento anual por el Día Internacional contra la Homofobia. Allí realizó la primera parte su serie Conducta impropia: primerísimos primeros planos en gran formato de los participantes, tan cercanos que el género de los sujetos se vuelve difícil de identificar. No obstante a ser frontales y directos como una foto policial, se presentan empoderados en lugar de coaccionados.


ProvenanceMadeleine and Harvey Plonsker, Glencoe, Illinois; given to MFAH, 2024.

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