QUEER PREHISTORIES

Archaeology Museum of Montemor-o-Novo.
Portugal. 2021

“In the stories that clay tells, harvested from the earth, kneaded and molded into utilitarian and ritual objects for thousands of years, the artist Pedro Queirós (b. 1983) found a vehicle for his project "Queer Prehistories." Starting from ceramic objects and shards, shale stelae, and megalithic bácuos found in the Alentejo region, he reconfigures them to bring to light an archaeological speculation of the pagan and queer imaginary, erased by Judeo-Christian history. In the exhibition he organized at the Montemor-o-Novo Archaeological Museum, these ceramic artifacts - shaped with local clay, full of sensual protrusions, with surfaces worked to resemble rocky patina, and others with very vibrant plastic colors featuring schematic homoerotic designs - coexist and blur with the museum's archaeological findings, in a critical gesture aimed at making present and discussing a symbolic queer heritage that existed but was assimilated and made invisible, and from there, generating other futures.”

Rita Hermínio in “FALAS DOS OFÍCIOS NA ARTE”

Sans title, Queer Prehistores, 2021 Ceramic Vessel. red clay and vitreous engobes layering. 50cm x 39 cm

Sans title, Queer Prehistores, 2021 Ceramic Vessel. Clay and vitreous engobes layering. 41cm x 30 cm,

Exhibited at: Archaeology Museum of Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal

Production:
Oficinas do Convento

Photography:
Tiago Fróis & Pedro Queirós

Sponsorship:
DgArtes, Câmara Municipal de Montemor-o-Novo & Oficinas do Convento

Interview:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m18BmZZrdLQ

| Queer Prehistories, Archaeology Museum of Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal. 2021
Photography:
Tiago Fróis & Pedro Queirós

© 2021

Queer Prehistories

Archaeology Museum of Montemor-o-Novo.Portugal. 2021

Archaeology Museum of Montemor-o-Novo.
Portugal. 2021