In the twentieth century, a new kind of model was imposed that began violently with the dictatorships sponsored by the foreign policy of the United States in the Caribbean and South America. While the upper and middle classes accessed mass consumption and the first private neighbourhoods were created, the structural collapse of the rule of law and its workforce led to the impoverishment of a large proportion of the already vulnerable population.

El descanso (The rest)is inspired by the life stories of the transvestite activist, Luisa Paz. It highlights the construction methods of ancestral homes using materials taken from the surrounding area, recycled, and from current homes, as forms of resistance to dispossession.

Similarly, it presents the house as a metaphor of one's own body, of beauty as a form of the commonplace, of a space where one can invent oneself. Not only does it refer to the housing crisis affecting the transvestite and trans communities, but also attempts to generate a call for relief.

Authors: Río Paraná (Duen Sacchi i Mag De Santo)

Duen Neka´hen Sacchi (Aguaray, Salta, Argentina, 1974)
Mag De Santo (La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1984)

Rio Paraná,

is an artistic team that, since 2016, has been working on projects that explore utopian imagination, social fiction, sexual dissidence and anti-colonialism. Both of its members are visual artists, performers, writers, researchers and former trans philosophers from the South, graduates of the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) Independent Studies Programme (PEI).

Their most recent projects, which are still ongoing, are The Rhea’s Footprint (or how we transform silences), a visual essay on the domestic and institutional archives of trans/transvestite/non-binary people under the constellation of the Southern Cross (La Virreina Centro de la Imagen, 2021 - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá, 2022), in which, by means of a collection of documents and artistic pieces, they attempt to illustrate the co-dependence between the colonial imposition of gender and racialization; Trauma, an archive of public culture sentiment surrounding gender-based and migrant dissident activism (Hysteria Colectivo, Consonni and Zinegoak), and What are they doing with our bones?, an examination, declassification of archives and living ancestral memory (Puelmapu, France and Barcelona).

Collaboration: Video by the Furia Travesti collective

Activations:
05.11 / 19:30h Frau Diamanda. Me Declaro Travesti en 4 piezas 
08.11 / 18h Meloe Gennai. SNOB 
11-12.11 / 19h: El dominio 
25.11 / 17'30h: Lizette Nin. R.S.M.A. Afro-aliment, més enllà del llenguatge