A few years ago, during Pride Month, I was exhibiting at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. I added a small LGBTQ+ flag to my boothβa quiet symbol of identity and support. The response was immediate: people who had been interested in my work suddenly turned away. Silent rejection, subtle but unmistakable.
As a woman and as an artist, I already felt overlooked in that environment. I hadnβt yet come out locally as bisexual, though Iβve known this about myself since my teens. Being married to a man at the time, everyone assumed I was straight. I never corrected them. I didnβt want to perform my identity for anyoneβbut that invisibility weighed heavily.
That moment crystallized something for me: even in the art worldβsupposedly a space of progress and expressionβqueer visibility still comes at a cost.
Now, years later, I find myself curating Post-Prideβa group exhibition opening July 5th at Casa Nua in SΓ£o Paulo. The name says it all: itβs what comes after the parade, after the hashtags, after the rainbow-washed marketing fades.
This isnβt about visibility as decoration. Itβs about reckoning, survival, joy, rage, embodiment, and reclamation. Itβs about whatβs left behind when the party is overβand who gets to keep telling their story.
Curating this show as a Web3-native artist has given me a unique lens. Iβve watched how NFTs offered us new freedomβfreedom to mint on our own terms, to sidestep gatekeepers, to connect globallyβbut also how this space, like any other, struggles with power, erasure, and tokenism. Post-Pride reflects that duality: a collision of on-chain expression and analog intimacy.
Weβre bringing together artists across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum, working in all kinds of mediumsβfrom glitch video and performance to painting, photography, sculpture, menstrual blood art, and traditional film. Some works are NFTs, some are physical. Some are loud and confrontational; others are soft but defiant. Together, they tell a powerful story.
And it is a storyβcarefully curated, not a scattered group show. The exhibition is structured around pairings that explore dualities: softness and violence, celebration and mourning, intimacy and resistance. Thereβs political protest and poetic reflection. Sacred rage and sensual tenderness. Itβs all there, because we are all that.
Iβm not here to βgive voiceβ to anyoneβqueer artists already speak loud and clear. Iβm here to help build a platform that refuses to look away. A platform where our truths donβt need to be sanitized to be accepted.
So if youβre in SΓ£o Paulo, come see us. Come for the art, for the people, for the stories that donβt fit into Juneβs rainbow packaging. And if youβre far away, stay connectedβweβll share what we can on-chain, and online.
This is the kind of exhibition I wish had existed when I stood behind that booth in Charleston. Itβs why I do what I do now. Because sometimes, it only takes a small flag to reveal just how far we still have to go.
And because even after Pride, weβre still here. Creating. Claiming space. Refusing to fade.
Redmoon is a visual reflection on queer loneliness, an attempt to capture what it feels like to be part of the LGBTQIA+ community once the noise fades and the celebration ends.
Read his thread on X about the creative process. It is an absolute gem!
In "Framed" Sepi challenges us to question the sales appeal of lesbian love, when it is accepted under this profitable circumstances.
by Quetzal Gelo
This year clearly showed that all this support was nothing more than a strategy from the marketing department. As soon as the political course shifted, many brands that had βsupportedβ, all that βlove is loveβ energy evaporated. No more rainbow avatars. No more allyship. Just silence.
by Lea Arafah & Natt Maat
NFTrans post pride is a meta-documentary that investigates, through an intimate and political gesture, the exhaustion of the word βprideβ when seen from the perspective of the βTβ in the LGBTQIAPN+ acronym. Shot in a single day, June 26, 2025, the work follows the journey from CapΓ£o Redondo to Avenida Paulista, placing center and margin, the intimate and the demonstrative, in direct tension.
by Fenelon
Chains spill from the mouth and become jewels. Here, shine chokes. The piece stages the price of acceptance: silence in exchange for visibility. To be seen, but not to speak.
I see love as two souls loving each other in energy, I see love as something that is unconditional and isn't something that is limited, limited to looks, gender or social norms.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLpnm5isviR/?igsh=MWtka3B6Mng2Ynd6Mw%3D%3D
by Hugo Faz
A celebration of paradox β a carnival of life where the flesh is both sacred and profane, pushing body and currency to their extremes (...) confronting our gaze with a provocative metaphor: that freedom β over our bodies, our identities, and our economic choices β cannot be merely partial. It is either whole or compromised.
Listed on Foundation
This work confronts the commodification of queer identities, the rainbow-washing of corporations, and the sanitized branding of LGBTQIA+ struggles.
by Fer Caggiano (me)
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GM lovelies. Today we open our Post-Pride exhibition and itβs so well put together! I canβt wait to share photos and videos π₯° Honored to be the oficial curator. Presented by @hugofaz at Casa Nua Produced by @thephilosopher.eth
Have fun!!
Thanks, Tazz!
GM Fer β Can't wait to see it!
I'll share photos later, but for now you can read the article I wrote about it! https://paragraph.com/@fercaggiano/what-happens-when-the-flags-go-down
Very cool! Love the concept and the art, hope the event flows well β€οΈβπ₯
Awesome!
Thanks, Jason!
What Happens When The Flags Go Down? New article about our exhibition at Casa Nua this Saturday!
Here @tazzista ππΌ