Two exhibitions on the construction of memory are inaugurated at the Conti

The exhibitions "La Pisada del ñandú (or how we transform silences)", curated by Río Paraná (Mag De Santo & Duen Neka'hen Sacchi), and "Our urgency to win / Women's struggle against the dictatorship", on the photographic archive of the photojournalist Kena Lorenzini in Chile in the 80s, will be inaugurated on September 9 at the Haroldo Conti Cultural Center of Memory.

The Footstep of the Ñandú

"La Pisada del ñandú (or how we transform silences)" is a call that allows us to go through a counter-history of the bodies that today we would call transvestites/trans/non-binaries based on a continuity between voices, skins and stars that make up this essay visual expository.

"We are trying to reconstruct a history that does not have 1492 as the starting date of the historical processes and does not have the 19th century as the process of origin of LGTIBQ identities, as is assumed within the history of the criminalization of identities. What we are trying to do is a visual essay that shows that there was a trans existence that dates back to the 15th century, at least in Europe and earlier in our America", explains to Télam Mag De Santo, a member of Río Paraná, the artistic team formed in 2015.

In this exhibition, which is one of the two that can be visited until February at the cultural center located at Av. Libertador 8151, CABA, one can find "a historiographical research work with an emphasis on poetics," explains De Santo and clarifies that this exhibition has already been mounted at the Central Museum of Barcelona and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama.