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 booth—a 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 hadn’t yet come out locally as bisexual, though I’ve 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 didn’t want to perform my identity for anyone—but that invisibility weighed heavily.

That moment crystallized something for me: even in the art world—supposedly a space of progress and expression—queer visibility still comes at a cost.

Now, years later, I find myself curating Post-Pride—a group exhibition opening July 5th at Casa Nua in São Paulo. The name says it all: it’s what comes after the parade, after the hashtags, after the rainbow-washed marketing fades.

This isn’t about visibility as decoration. It’s about reckoning, survival, joy, rage, embodiment, and reclamation. It’s about what’s left behind when the party is over—and who gets to keep telling their story.

Curating this show as a Web3-native artist has given me a unique lens. I’ve watched how NFTs offered us new freedom—freedom to mint on our own terms, to sidestep gatekeepers, to connect globally—but 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.

We’re bringing together artists across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum, working in all kinds of mediums—from 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 story—carefully curated, not a scattered group show. The exhibition is structured around pairings that explore dualities: softness and violence, celebration and mourning, intimacy and resistance. There’s political protest and poetic reflection. Sacred rage and sensual tenderness. It’s all there, because we are all that.

I’m not here to “give voice” to anyone—queer artists already speak loud and clear. I’m here to help build a platform that refuses to look away. A platform where our truths don’t need to be sanitized to be accepted.

So if you’re in São Paulo, come see us. Come for the art, for the people, for the stories that don’t fit into June’s rainbow packaging. And if you’re far away, stay connected—we’ll 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. It’s 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, we’re still here. Creating. Claiming space. Refusing to fade.

by Odyssey of the Heart

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!

by Sepideh Gerami

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 “supported”, all that “love is love” 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 “pride” when seen from the perspective of the “T” in the LGBTQIAPN+ acronym. Shot in a single day, June 26, 2025, the work follows the journey from Capão 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.

by Marishca Becker

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 — 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 — over our bodies, our identities, and our economic choices — cannot be merely partial. It is either whole or compromised.

by The Philosopher

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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