Wrap Me Kindly in a Noaberschap Cloth - Claudio Pestana

At ARE, Claudio Pestana presents Wrap Me Kindly in a Noaberschap Cloth, an enactment of an episode of Mundus Transfiguratus, an evolving world-building project informed by ecology, mythology, and queer phenomenology. In this body of work, the artist employs myth-making as a speculative tool to construct a queer trans-species cosmology, which at ARE unfolds across an immersive installation of paintings, textiles, found objects, organic matter, soundscape and video, and a performance featuring transmogrified beings.

Claudio Pestana is a Portuguese-British interdisciplinary artist whose studio practice spans a wide range of media. They are interested in the politics of memory and examine how some stories are preserved and celebrated, while others are neglected, erased, or forgotten.

The artist draws on archives, collections, and other repositories of knowledge to create work that challenges the marginalisation of non-conforming bodies and voices. A core focus of their practice is the deconstruction of heteronormative and binary frameworks, queering histories, memories and places.