I grew up in a family surrounded by women and solitary maternities. I grew up witnessing the absence of fatherhood. There were fewer men than women, yet they were the ones who decided and invoked blind force. At twelve, I began to recognize my own difference. At eighteen, I experienced my first loss: my cousin José died by suicide. Among relatives, people whispered that Joseito was homosexual and that this was why he chose to end his life.

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Dead Family is an artistic research project that examines family photographs and their function as binary historical documents that protect heteroparental narratives imposed by patriarchal structures.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 regimes. Within the act of the “family portrait,” diverse identities are forced to occupy the space of the invisible.This activation of queer memory proposes a photographic and political intervention. It is a collective project that requires the voice and the gaze of the LGBTQIA+ community. Its collaborative nature enables each participant to intervene in their own archives as a way of reclaiming control over their history and generating a counter-archive that exposes the systematic violences endured by diverse childhoods.