テート・ギャラリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テート・ギャラリーInstagram)「Today we welcome @KarolRadziszewski from @QueerArchivesInstitute to 'Queerate' Tate. 🏳️‍🌈 The Queer Archives Institute is an artist-run organisation dedicated to research, collection, digitalisation, presentation, exhibition, analysis and artistic interpretation of queer archives, with special focus on Central and Eastern Europe. 'In this painting a young Chopin plays on the piano with a crowd gathered around him. His father sits by the window. Perhaps they are wondering who this boy will become. Chopin is a Polish national treasure. His name is inscribed on city streets, bottles of vodka, and even the Warsaw airport is named in his honour. So when the recent publication of excerpts from letters that were written in his youth revealed what was possibly homoerotic desire, a public scandal erupted. Despite the content having long been well-known amongst musicologists, it led to hysteria on a national scale amongst Poland’s largely homophobic population. Was Chopin homosexual? Bisexual? The aim here is not to assign a particular sexual orientation or identity to every figure in history. However, the default assumption that national heroes are automatically presumed to be heterosexual inevitably leads to the deliberate erasure of queer individuals from the historical record.' - @KarolRadziszewski, @QueerArchivesInstitute Andrew Carrick Gow, A Musical Story by Chopin 1879 🎹 #LGBTQIHistoryMonth #QueerandNow」2月9日 21時50分