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Contributed by Loren Britton / On the occasion of �A Strong Desire,� a sprawling summer group at PS120 in Berlin that explores sexual identity, the body, and their commodification in capitalist community, Loren Britton interviews curators Aleksandr Blanar and Justin Polera. In the curatorial statement, Christina Gigliotti writes that the exhibition, on view through August 26, “sets out to challenge heteronormativity and toxic masculinity by presenting artworks that examine a kind of deterritorialization from this � through reevaluating power structures, slipping through the cracks of gender constructs, and for some, ultimately escaping the material body altogether through dreams, fantasy, and altered states of mind.”

Loren Britton:  How did you come up with the title A Strong Desire?

Aleksandr Blanar and Justin Polera: We began the curatorial process by looking back on the work of Tom of Finland who is considered one of the inventors of what can be called �the queer imaginary.� Only recently acquire art historians simultaneously with blue chip commercial art galleries taken these drawings as very serious art. For deca