Louis Fratino is an artist whose paintings and drawings of the male body and domestic spaces capture the intimacy and tenderness found in queer everyday life. For this Biennale Arte, Fratino presents a series of new paintings that explore the ways in which LGBTQ+ people socialize to survive in the world as "outsiders". This new body of work critiques the complexity of family dynamics that queer individuals must navigate, from childhood into adulthood. Drawing from personal visual sources, Fratino juxtaposes the image of family with visceral homoerotic representations as a way to visually render the tensions between the two worlds.
