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Embracing Vulnerability

July 13 – September 1, 2024
Gay Intimacy in the Context of AIDS

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  • a view of Embracing Vulnerability: Gay Intimacy in the Context of AIDS installed in Gutman Gallery. The walls are a reddish brown and there is art hanging on them.

    A view of Embracing Vulnerability: Gay Intimacy in the Context of AIDS installed in Gutman Gallery. Photo by Rob Strong.

  • A young man with medium-dark skin tone stands in a red room and wears a red towel around his waist but no shirt. The sitter's expression is serene and he stares at the camera.

    Jess T. Dugan, Collin (red room), from the portfolio Every Breath We Drew, 2020, color photograph printed on Hahnemule Photo Rag Pearl paper. Purchased through the Miriam H. and S. Sidney Stoneman Acquisition Fund; 2022.20.7. 

Series

A Space for Dialogue 119

About

Embracing Vulnerability: Gay Intimacy in the Context of AIDS reclaims gay sexuality as something intimate, affirming its beauty in the face of the legacy of state-sanctioned discrimination and marginalization during the height of the AIDS epidemic. The way in which these works reckon with this history through tender depictions of intimacy reframes queer male sexuality as natural and desirable rather than dangerous and obscene.

A Space for Dialogue is a student-curated exhibition program that began in 2001. Hood Museum of Art interns create an installation drawn from the museum's permanent collection by engaging with every aspect of curation, from doing research and selecting objects, to choosing frames and a wall color, to planning a layout and writing labels and a brochure, to giving a public talk. There have been over 100 A Space for Dialogue exhibitions on a wide variety of themes.

A Space for Dialogue: Fresh Perspectives on the Permanent Collection from Dartmouth Students, founded with support from the Class of 1948, is made possible with generous endowments from the Class of 1967, Bonnie and Richard Reiss Jr. '66, and Pamela J. Joyner '79.

Exhibition Curator

Colin Donnelly '24

Press Mentions

Exhibition subject: A Space for Dialogue