2022
Book
Fundación Foro del Sur
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Through a series of photographic practices from the Argentine contemporary scene, we present a constellation of problems – a set of images, relations and sequences – in which gender matters as a question, a standpoint and an argument rather than as a topic or the attribution of authorship of a specific sex. The political effect of these practices is revealed in their capacity to intricate and subvert certain ways in which visuality, as a system of meanings, operates within an order that produces and reproduces predetermined sex-gender imaginaries, and hegemonic and oppressive rationales. In response to the homogeneity of universalizing heteronormative models, these images do not seek to produce or establish narratives upholding partial identities – which are always unstable and contingent – but rather represent a laboratory for critical interventions from/within/with a gender perspective. As aesthetic artifacts, they react to the various manifestations of sexual difference and to the cultural representations of this construction. These images form a network of actions, figures and visual materials that oppose the established monologism through an explosion of dislocated voices with the potential to institutionalise, the will to differentiate and the power to dissent.