{"id":51236,"date":"2026-02-10T12:59:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ket.brussels\/?p=51236"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:59:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:59:49","slug":"monica-queering-mothers-memory-and-lineage-on-a-brussels-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ket.brussels\/en\/2026\/02\/10\/monica-queering-mothers-memory-and-lineage-on-a-brussels-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Monica: Queering Mothers, Memory and Lineage on a Brussels Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>On 12\u201313 February, Brussels hosts a piece that feels made for queer eyes and hearts:\u00a0<em>Monica<\/em>, a deeply intimate performance by Argentinian artist couple Pablo Lilienfeld and Federico Vladimir <a href=\"https:\/\/balsamine.be\/balsa_post\/monica\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/balsamine.be\/balsa_post\/monica\/\">at La Balsamine. <\/a>It is part family archive, part telenovela, part quiet revolution against heteronormative ideas of what a mother, a couple, and a family are allowed to be.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"a-love-story-with-two-monicas-at-its-core\">A love story with two Monicas at its core<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pablo and Fede have been together since 2014, and from the start their relationship and artistic practice have been intertwined. Their motto, in Spanish, is&nbsp;<em>\u201cNarrarse es cuidarse\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 to tell your story is to take care of yourself (and of each other). In&nbsp;<em>Monica<\/em>, they turn that ethic of care toward the lives of their mothers, both called Monica, both daughters of European war refugees who grew up in 1950s Argentina and later migrated to Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One Monica (Lilienfeld\u2019s mother) died young in 1986, leaving behind a huge body of colourful, hypnotic paintings. The other (Vladimir\u2019s mother) broke with strict Catholicism and posed nude for erotic photographs taken by Fede\u2019s father in the 1980s. These traces \u2013 the paintings and photographs \u2013 are not just props; they are the visual DNA of the performance. The show becomes a kind of s\u00e9ance in motion, where queer sons dance with the ghosts, desires and contradictions of their mothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"562\" height=\"733\" src=\"https:\/\/ket.brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Capture-decran-2026-02-10-125652.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ket.brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Capture-decran-2026-02-10-125652.jpg 562w, https:\/\/ket.brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Capture-decran-2026-02-10-125652-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/ket.brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Capture-decran-2026-02-10-125652-9x12.jpg 9w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More information on the venue and dates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>La Balsamine event page (EN\/FR\/NL):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visit.brussels\/fr\/visiteurs\/venue-details.La-Balsamine.942\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.visit.brussels\/fr\/visiteurs\/venue-details.La-Balsamine.942<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"queer-motherhood-beyond-biology-and-patriarchy\">Queer motherhood beyond biology and patriarchy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the most powerful ideas in&nbsp;<em>Monica<\/em>&nbsp;is that Pablo and Fede can consider&nbsp;<em>Monica<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 the piece, the shared figure of their mothers \u2013 as their \u201ccommon daughter\u201d. The usual direction of family trees is flipped: instead of mothers simply producing children, queer artists \u201cgive birth\u201d to a new Monica made of images, performance and memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This re-writing of genealogy matters for LGBTQ+ audiences. Many of us grow up with narratives where family is rigid: one mother, one father, one path.&nbsp;<em>Monica<\/em>&nbsp;offers something else \u2013 a non\u2011heteronormative web of care, where a couple can be co\u2011parents to a work, to a story, to an imagined lineage that includes the women who shaped them but does not freeze them into traditional roles. The show is described as a \u201ctelenovela\u201d in which patriarchal histories, wars and migrations coexist with the stories that were erased. That\u2019s precisely where queer storytelling lives: between what we inherit and what we decide to reinvent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For broader queer perspectives on chosen family and non\u2011traditional kinship, you might also appreciate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cQueer Kinship: Family Formations and Social Transformation\u201d (book overview and essays):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchesteropenhive.com\/display\/9781526114202\/9781526114202.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.manchesteropenhive.com\/display\/9781526114202\/9781526114202.xml<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Article on queer chosen families (The Trevor Project):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrevorproject.org\/resources\/article\/what-is-chosen-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.thetrevorproject.org\/resources\/article\/what-is-chosen-family\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"bodies-archives-and-the-politics-of-looking\">Bodies, archives and the politics of looking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Monica<\/em>&nbsp;unfolds through performance, dance, video and music, but underneath it all is a question many queer people know intimately: who gets to look at our bodies and our lives, and on whose terms? One mother is present through her paintings; the other, through erotic images that once circulated under the male gaze and patriarchal frameworks. By re\u2011staging these archives, Pablo and Fede reclaim them through queer eyes \u2013 as sons, as lovers, as artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For LGBTQ+ spectators, this resonates with the long history of queer bodies being hyper\u2011sexualised, censored or simply erased.&nbsp;<em>Monica<\/em>&nbsp;doesn\u2019t offer a simple \u201ccelebration\u201d of liberation; instead, it sits with complexity: Catholic guilt and erotic desire, exile and belonging, tenderness and spectacle. It invites us to ask how we tell our stories when the source material comes from systems that didn\u2019t always want us to exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019re interested in how queer art reclaims the gaze, you can explore:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cThe Queer Art of Failure\u201d by Jack Halberstam (overview and excerpts):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/the-queer-art-of-failure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/the-queer-art-of-failure<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cInside the Queer Art of the Archive\u201d (short article on archives and LGBTQ+ memory):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frieze.com\/article\/queer-archives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.frieze.com\/article\/queer-archives<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"why-this-matters-for-lgbtq-audiences-in-2026\">Why this matters for LGBTQ+ audiences in 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a moment when queer and trans families are still under attack in many places,&nbsp;<em>Monica<\/em>&nbsp;feels urgent. It offers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A vision of motherhood that is not saintly, silent or straight, but embodied, flawed and desiring.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A model of queer partnership where intimacy and creativity are inseparable, and where making art together becomes a way of caring for each other\u2019s histories.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A reminder that our stories do not start with us \u2013 they stretch back through migrations, wars, secrets and silences \u2013 but we can still choose how they are told now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019re in Brussels or nearby,&nbsp;<em>Monica<\/em>&nbsp;is not just \u201csomething to see\u201d. It\u2019s an invitation to think about your own queer lineage: the women, mentors, lovers, friends and ghosts who made you possible, and the stories you might still want to bring to the stage of your own life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Practical links to plan your visit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>La Balsamine official site:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/balsamine.be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/balsamine.be<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brussels LGBTQ+ information and events:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>RainbowHouse Brussels:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rainbowhouse.be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/rainbowhouse.be<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Visit.Brussels LGBTQI+ page:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visit.brussels\/en\/visitors\/what-to-do\/lgbtqi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.visit.brussels\/en\/visitors\/what-to-do\/lgbtqi<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p 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