Dols Queer is a project that revolves around the political powers of mourning transmitted by LGTBIQ activism and which coincides with the commemoration of World AIDS Day.

The greater exposure to violence suffered by queer persons has called for the need to politicize the mourning rite in order to ask some fundamental questions: who has the right to cry and have their sorrow acknowledged? What bodies have the opportunity to be mourned? What mourning do persons associated with LGTBIQ experiences have to go through in the present day? What role does artistic creation play to accompany these mourning processes?

To answer these questions, we will invite a group of mourners so that they can reclaim and place the traditional functions of these professional mourners at the service of LGTBIQ claims: to make intensely visible the pain caused by loss, making it public and social, to highlight and dignify a dead body, or to keep the memory of that life alive, among other unexpected things.

On 2 and 3 December, these mourners will demonstrate their mourning, on a performative and ritual guided tour, reclaiming in this way the empathic and liturgical functions of the great majority of medieval works of art.

This project will be accompanied shortly by a digital publication with different texts/ funeral prayers written by activists and invited artists based on a selection of works in the Museu Nacional, giving the collection a new reading and reinterpreting the format of medieval Books of Hours.

Conceptualization: Víctor Ramírez Tur

“Mourners”: Júlia S. Cid in collaboration with Alba Moreno Biurrun, Diego Falconí and Carolina Torres Topaga – with the participation of Diego Posada and Mafe Moscoso – Toni R. Juncosa, Víctor Ramírez Tur and Mireia Sánchez.