I challenge you to love me (Brazilië, 2011-2014)
With its casual semi-nudity, the street scene in Brazil may suggest an impression of tolerance and liberal thinking, but the figures tell a different story. Over the past four years violence against homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals has tripled in Brazil. In response to this, Diana Blok was asked by the Dutch Embassy to record the LGBT community there, as she previously did in Turkey with her series See Through Us. Blok’s encounters with gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals resulted in personal disclosures about the search for a sexual identity in a thoroughly conservative society.
