Sharon Hayes: RICERCHE: FOUR

Acclaimed artist Sharon Hayes presents Ricerche: four, an expansive and deeply moving two-channel video composed from interviews with LGBTQ+ elders across the United States. The final installment in her decade-long series exploring sexuality and gender in the US, the work draws inspiration from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1963 film Comizi d’Amore (Love Meetings), in which the filmmaker interviewed Italians about their shifting views on sex and sexuality. Adopting a similar structure, Hayes invites participants to reflect on their experiences of desire, identity, community, activism, and survival—modeling listening and dialogue as radical tools for intergenerational connection and collective understanding. As LGBTQ+ lives come under increasing political fire, Ricerche: four is an insistent reminder of the galvanizing force of shared testimony and the mobilizing potential of community.