Alexander Apóstol’s work has always examined the peripheral condition of homosexuals, who despite integrating themselves more and more into contemporary society, especially in developed countries, remain a marginal sector in terms of social policies, having, for example, no access to forms of legalizing their marital unions, health benefits, and tax deductions reserved for married couples. In this installation, comprised of two works What I’m Looking For and Towers of Europe, Apóstol alludes to the issue of marginalization not only of the homosexual but more specifically of the one who hails from the periphery. His work depicts two facets of homosexual desire, as expressed in the vehicle that globalization affords towards communication between distant parts of the world, the internet and chat rooms, where virtual encounters may take place. In What I’m Looking For, messages exchanged in chat rooms between Latin American and European homosexuals always harbor, at least for the Latin Americans, the hope of moving to Europe to be with a new found sexual partner. The accompanying piece, Towers of Europe, is a series of photographs of CPU towers which, for these internauts of the periphery, represent the imaginary architectures of the center, in this case Europe, architectures which contain and enable them to communicate their desires.


Selected solo exhibitions: 2003: Casa de América, Madrid; 2000: Centro Cultural San Martín, Buenos Aires; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca Rufino Tamayo, Mexico; 1999: Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City; 1998: Throckmorton, New York; Thomas Cohn, Río de Janero; Fundación Mendoza, Caracas.
Selected group exhibitions: 2003: 8th Istanbul Biennial; Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France; 2002: 25th São Paulo Biennial; Noorderlich Photofestival, Fries Museum, The Netherlands; Fotofest, Houston, USA; 2001: 3th Bienal Barro De America, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas.