“Iconic Kisses” 2:30
“Kisses are everywhere, in galleries, movies and TV shows. But 99 percent of history’s most famous kisses tell the same story: cis hetero couples. And if life imitates art, it’s no wonder that LGBTQ+ people are not only shunned in many countries but are also targets of violence. Online marketplace Mercado Livre decided to help normalize all kinds of love by re-creating the most iconic cis hetero kisses with real couples from the LGBTQ+ community in an epic film. All the film’s scenes were made available on Mercado Livre’s website as hi-res images free of copyright, letting people download and transform them into anything they wanted. Hundreds of products appeared on the platform featuring the new iconic kisses, and the photos are now eternalized as a permanent collection at the Google Arts & Culture museum.”