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Title:	ficciones patógenas
Date:	3/14/2025 - 7/27/2025
Address:	Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, 26 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10013
Location:	New York, NY
Hours:	Wednesday: 12pm - 5pm, Thursday - Sunday: 12pm - 6pm
Cost/Cover:	$10 suggested donation
Web Page:	https://leslielohman.org/exhibitions/ficciones-pat%c3%b3gena ...
Contact Info:	212-431-2609

Details:

“Possessed.” “Deviant.” “Sick.” Historically, colonial regimes attempted, gained, and maintained control over cuir/kuir/queer, trans, Black, and Indigenous people by pathologizing them along with their relationships—to the land, to the nonhuman, to one another. The rich sexual and gender diversity of the many cultures of Abya Yala (Kuna for the entirety of the Americas ) was unintelligible to Western knowledge frameworks. To justify acts of violent dispossession and extraction, they characterized specific ways of existing as unnatural. These narratives have wound through legal, religious, cultural, political, and ideological structures in Abya Yala since 1492, and—as ficciones patógenas (pathogenic fictions)—they shape our understandings of bodies, land, culture, and power today. The artists in this exhibition explore how ficciones patógenas have been perpetuated and embodied, occluding local, non-Western, and Indigenous ways of being and knowing. In their 2018 book ficciones patógenas, Guaxu trans writer, activist, and participating artist Duen Neka'hen Sacchi traces their own medical history through Western regimes of bodily conformity.