marilena pelosi at the 14th edition of Salo – the erotic art fair
Marilena Pelosi’s 2006 drawing A Story with Tail and Head will be exhibited at Les Salaisons from June 25 to 28 as part of the fifteenth edition of SALO, the erotic drawing fair, alongside works by 133 contemporary artists.
Eroticism is rooted in imagination, fantasy, poetry, scents and fragrances, landscapes, romanticism, and art; it is a personal sensation that is not tied to sex, domination, power, or even reality. Eroticism sometimes ends where sexuality begins, and always when that sexuality has not been desired, wanted, or chosen.
— Laurent Quénéhen, curator of SALO XIV.
Les Salaisons
23 Passage de Ménilmontant 75011 Paris
At a very young age, Marilena Pelosi began to make drawings in which exuberant Catholicism and feverish Macumba, from her native Brazil, swirled to the point of delirium. The reminiscence of trance, eucharistic processions and carnivals are inextricably combined with much more intimate evocations. Established in France for several decades, she continues these same troubling drawings, made with ballpoint pens, in which doll-women are both executioners and victims. Now part of the CNAP collection, in 2019 she will join BIC (France), and in 2021 the Musée d’art moderne (Pompidou, France) and was recently included in the collections of LaM - Lille Métropole Musée d’Art Moderne, Art Contemporain, and Art Brut in 2025 (France).