Public Hygiene: society as a sick body

Public Hygiene: society as a sick body is a project build around the artist Daniel Gasol work, reflecting, since the present, about the relationship between legislation, science and religion that criminalises, medicates and punishes those who do not comply with the normativity of the capital system, with the condition of being “upright citizens”. From the analysis of Vagos y Maleantes (1933-1970) and Peligrosidad Social (1970-1995) codes and laws, the projects examines how both laws addressed the topics of gender, race and social class by trying to manage, regulate and discipline desires and sexual-affective relationships between individuals. In Gasol’s works the archive, the installation, the performatic and audivisual documents mix together.