What is gay? Apparently nothing, apparently everything. Many of us grew up in a world where nothing was gay only to discover that, soon after, some people think that everything has become too gay. Thus, the drawings of Pepo Moreno, acrylic on paper that represent with tremulous lines and saturated colors food, celebrities, plants, drugs, animals, saints, politicians, feelings, dictators and entities, all of them with wild eyes and smiles frozen in the time, they function as a celebration, parody and reclamation of the gay agenda that corrupts the world. The gay agenda is gay. If everything is gay, nothing is. Gay existence itself, like the technique of these illustrations, is not learned. He is dissident, amoral and free. Gay, like this book, is full of strange icons, heartbreak, errors, anarchy, fetishes, feather, masculinity, onanism, unhealthy desire, self-hatred, love and garbage. All of this is also gay and is drawn with a childlike and childish line because immaturity is gay and all children, in reality, are gay. Consuming culture captured in a physical object in the year 2022 is gay, paying for a book to see things that are freely available on Instagram is gay. But from now on money is gay. And Pepo Moreno too.
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Published by Paripé Books, 144 pgs, 24.5 × 17 cm, Hardback, 2022, 9788412524215
