Stigmata is the most comprehensive institutional exhibition to date of Carlos Motta’s work in his native Colombia. It presents a wide selection of works that reflect the artist’s enduring engagement with histories of exclusion, resistance and transformation.

Through installations, videos, performances, sculptures and archival material, Motta explores the ideological foundations of sexuality and gender. His practice moves between personal testimony and political critique, developing visual and discursive strategies to expose how bodies have been historically stigmatized by colonial, religious and normative systems.

Among the new commissions, Hilos de sangre (2023) stands out as the most comprehensive timeline of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Colombia to date. Shown alongside Virosis, a collective display of intergenerational Colombian artists whose work directly referenced the taboo of HIV, it reactivates silenced histories and affirms the political power of mourning and survival.

Stigmata affirms Motta’s work as a vital force in reimagining the relationship between aesthetics, justice and power.