This exhibition explores the invisible yet persistent atmosphere of misinformation and falsehoods surrounding queer lives. Its aim is not only to expose lies but to make visible the feelings, pressures, and psychological burdens they create.
Misinformation does not exist solely in news headlines. It lives in glances, repeated phrases, inherited narratives, and fears passed down under the guise of “normal.” This exhibition is a space to confront those systems, refuse erasure, and present existence itself as an act.
Participating artists — Adrian Lorenzo, Ailo, and NULL — work with digital collage, visual fragmentation, and symbolic language to show how queer existence is distorted while simultaneously persisting.
ADRIAN LORENZO
Adrian is a Madrid-based collage artist whose work explores intimacy, identity, and emotional memory through layered visual storytelling.
His style carries symbolism, controlled, sensual, and introspective energy. Each piece invites the viewer to look beyond the surface and into a deeply personal inner world, where vulnerability becomes strength and emotion becomes structure.
Through collage, Adrian transforms fragments into narratives , creating art that feels both intimate and quietly powerful.
Trilogy of Personal Chaos
I think about queer existence as something that moves through landscapes already shaped by other people’s stories. Not lived stories, but inherited ones repeated so often they start to feel natural. The sea here is carved and ornamental for that reason. It looks permanent. It looks unquestionable.
-ADRIAN LORENZO
The eyes are watching, but not closely. They don’t belong to anyone specific. They stand in for the feeling of being seen without being understood: observed, interpreted, judged from a distance. The face in the clouds feels similar: an authority that hovers above, abstract and unreachable, capable of producing fear without ever touching the ground.
There is a lighthouse, but its light is narrow. It offers direction while withholding clarity. It illuminates only what is permitted to be visible. Everything else remains in shadow. > Adrian A: The ship keeps moving. It is small, exposed, and out of scale with the environment around it. It is not a symbol of conquest or arrival. It is simply there, continuing.
This image is not about conflict. It is about persistence , about moving through spaces where danger is already decided, where visibility is conditional, and where reality is shaped by those who claim to watch over it.
This piece comes from the atmosphere of fear and misinformation that constantly surrounds queer lives.
-ADRIAN LORENZO
On the left, I imagined homophobia and anti-LGBTQ+ violence as a single monster : a mix of lies, hatred, and repeated images that turn queer existence into something dangerous or grotesque. It isn’t one person, but a system made of many voices, headlines, and myths feeding each other.
On the right stands Abraxas. I chose this figure because it is hybrid, contradictory, and impossible to categorize. Abraxas exists beyond simple binaries, and for me it became a symbol of transgender presence not as something to be explained or justified, but as something that simply is. A body that doesn’t fit the rules imposed on it.
The scene takes place in a cosmic space, outside everyday reality. This reflects how queer lives are often treated as an abstract debate instead of lived experience. The lace borders reference tradition and “normality,” framing violence in a way that feels disturbingly familiar and accepted.
This work isn’t about winning a fight. It’s about standing in front of distortion without disappearing. About refusing to be reduced by misinformation, and existing anyway.
This piece comes from what’s left after being looked at, explained, or filtered too many times. It’s not about a specific moment, but about the feeling that lingers once meaning has already been assigned from the outside.
-aDRIAN LORENZO
The image is intentionally uneven. Things don’t fully align, some parts feel cut off or unfinished. That reflects how my own sense of self can feel shaped by other people’s narratives before I even get to speak. What looks unclear isn’t confusion it’s the result of distortion.
There’s a sense of distance here. Not because of indifference, but because stepping back can be a way to survive. You see yourself from far away, aware you’re visible, but not fully understood.
AİLO
Ailo is a visual artist working through digital collage, video, and graphic forms. Their practice explores inner states, focusing on emotional presence rather than fixed meaning. Through layered imagery and fragmented elements, they create visual storytelling where image, emotion, and form remain open, fluid, and unresolved.
processing
The visual artwork holds the moment where being seen turns into being handled. The hand does not hurt, but it controls.
It adjusts, processes, decides.
The image stays inside the feeling of
being spoken about, analyzed, slowed down
while still being here.
moving
This visual doesn’t choose a shape.
It keeps moving. Layers interrupt each other and maybe nothing settles.
//how meaning slips when everything is forced to be clear.
failed A B and maybe even C
Visual holds inside the statement of being ‘enough.’
Enough this way, or that way. Soft enough. Tough enough. There are always different patterns of being enough-being read as enough.
NULL
I have been doing digital art for the past seven years with dedication to visual storytelling. My work serves as a bridge between my emotions and expression, allowing me to express things I find hard to describe with words. Because art is so personal to me I perform my best when the pieces I make is something I can emotionally connect with.
-NuLL
The Judgement
In this piece the words used on the depicted person’s face are from various news articles with strong disinformative motivation describing the LGBTQIA+ minority. These labels are forced upon us, and by time it becomes what society associates with LGBTQIA+. They make up an identity for us and then isolate us for it. I tried to depict the unease that arises from such a gaze with this.
-NULL
Nine of Swords
Everyday people from my community wake up to yet another piece of disinformation about their own lives. The constant exposure to false and harmful narratives becomes distressing, exhausting, and overwhelming.
-Null
This piece reimagines the tarot card Nine of Swords, replacing each sword with a different news source shown as monitors. Through this, I wanted to convey emotional burden carried by those who are forced to live under persistent misrepresentation and scrutiny
Ten of Wands
In this era, it is easier than ever to drown in a sea of misinformation. Even as society isolates us and social media overwhelms us with false narratives, we must remember that we are a community. We don’t have to drown alone. By standing together and sharing one another’s burdens, we can survive and resist what tries to pull us under.
-NULL
