Coinciding with the commemoration of World AIDS Day, on 2 and 3 December at 6 p.m., the Museu Nacional is organising Mourning Queer, a performative and ritual visit with a group of mourners who will rescue the empathic and liturgical functions that many medieval works had.
The mourners will put the traditional functions of weeping at the service of LGTBIQ+ demands: to make the pain caused by loss intensely visible until it becomes public and social, to give value and dignity to a dead body or to maintain the memory of that life. This performative visit to the rooms of the Gothic and Modern Art collection also vindicates the role played by artistic creation in accompanying these mourning processes.
 
The project, conceptualised by Víctor Ramírez Tur, is accompanied by a digital publication with texts/funeral orations written by activists and guest artists based on works in the museum, reinterpreting the format of the medieval "Books of Hours".