Tomorrow Wednesday at 11 o’clock, the headquarters of the Instituto Cervantes in Alcalá de Henares (calle Libreros, 23) inaugurates the exhibition Rare loves in poetry and art. 20 years of equal marriage, curated by Pablo Peinado and will be shown until next November 15.
On the occasion of the celebration this year 2025 of the twentieth anniversary of the legalization of equal marriage in Spain, the Cervantes Institute in collaboration with the Asociación Visible Cultural organizes this exhibition to celebrate and claim through poetry and art the achievement of a right that in 2005 placed Spain at the forefront of human rights and the defense of the equality of the LGTB communityIQ+.
The exhibition presents a selection of 20 poems of love and disaffection accompanied by works of art selected not so much as an illustration, but to place the poetic text in a plastic and aesthetic context, poets and artists from various origins within the Spanish territory, but also with Latin American presence, and representatives of different generations. The works of art have been donated for this project by the Asociación Visible Cultural, an organization that has been collecting an art collection and a LGTBIQ+ documentary archive with the respective names of Visible Collection and Visible Documentary Archive, the largest of their kind in Spain. The opening will be presented by Luis García Montero, director of the Instituto Cervantes, and Pablo Peinado Céspedes, curator of the exhibition. The event will be attended by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, President of the Government of Spain (2004-2012).