Portuguese artists João Pedro Vale and Nuno Alexandre Ferreira have erected a two-storey building inside the MAAT in Lisbon, filled with references to "dissident forms of sexuality".
Visitors are invited to enter the dark, mysterious structure, where they find a two-storey interior containing what looks like the cells and wash room of a prison, but which is also reminiscent of gay cruising venues.

Titled Loving as the Road Begins, the installation draws comparisons between the constructs of imprisonment and the realities of queer existence.
"The artists juxtapose a variety of opposing references which conjure up images of impurity and sanitation, illness and cure, crime and punishment, associating incarceration structures with forbidden existences," reads an exhibition overview.
The project developed through Vale and Ferreira's research into the late surrealist poet and painter Mário Cesariny.
During a residency at La Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, the pair stayed in an apartment close to the monument, Saint-Jacques Tower. They recognised it as the cover image of Cesariny's book, A Cidade Queimada, or Burnt City.

Cesariny wrote the book in 1964, during a two-month incarceration at Fresnes prison, where he was sent after being arrested for soliciting a police officer in a Paris cinema and accused of gross indecency.
The poet's imprisonment is believed by many to have been persecution, as a result of his so-called vagrancy ? a derogatory te...