2022-2024

Dead Family is an artistic investigation that examines family photographs and their function as a binary historical document that upholds heteroparental narratives imposed by patriarchal structures. These impositions establish an order that separates the masculine from the feminine and marginalizes identities that reject cisnormative biopolitical control.

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Within the act of the "family portrait," diverse identities are forced into the space of invisibility. This activation of queer memory proposes a photographic and political intervention. It is a collective project that requires the voice and perspective of the LGBTIQ+ community. The collaborative nature of this work allows each person to intervene in their own archives as a way to reclaim control over their history and generate a counter-archive that exposes the systemic violence suffered by LGBTIQ+ childhoods.