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1st Station of the Cross: Pray in the Garden of Gethsemane
Collection:UAL Art Collection
Date: 2024
Artist: Cheo Gonzalez
Dimensions:
150cm x 100cm
Medium: Fly Poster's backside, transfer print, paint, gold leaf
Object number: UAC 1138
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DescriptionCheo Gonzalez studied MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts. His artwork explores how the Church utilized homoerotic art to promote the image of a masculine, white man as a representation of virtue. It also examines the dissemination of this homoeroticism through colonialism to contemporary conservative groups. Using the backs of billboards collected from the street—rich surfaces unseen by most—the artist transfers erotic images that emulate religious art. By reintroducing them into public spaces, the work proposes sexual and aesthetic resistance through the desacralization of Christ's image, offering a subversive response to reclaim the representation of bodies and desires within dissident sexualities.