Laia Abril, Marcelo Brodsky, Teresa Margolles and Joan Morey

Sade’s work has been a recurrent reference in contemporary art, especially among artists who strive to reflect on such questions as the limits of representation, morality, freedom of expression, gender, and sexual diversity. Imagination as expressed by Sade can be traced in the work of early twentieth-century artists including Salvador Dalí, André Masson, Toyen, Alberto Giacometti, and Leonor Fini, and it is kept alive today in the art of such creators as Paul Chan, Shu Lea Cheang, and Joan Morey, all of whom appear in the exhibition “Sade. Freedom or Evil”. On the occasion of the opening of this exhibition, we bring together the curators and some of the participating artists to speak about the relevance of the controversial French author in contemporary art.