INVENT A WAY, INVENT A PLACE

Inventar una forma, inventar un lugar is a collage-based project born at UNTREF under the mentorship of artist and curator Rosana Schoijett, later reimagined as a limited-run fanzine of 20 copies. Blending visual experimentation with a spirit of resistance, the work explores how collage can be a site for remaking not only images, but also bodies, identities, and the realities they inhabit.

Historically, collage has served as a medium of interruption — a form of protest, rupture, and reconfiguration. From Dadá’s attacks on bourgeois language to anti-fascist propaganda and punk’s anti-establishment DIY culture, the act of cutting and pasting has always been more than aesthetic — it’s political. This fanzine carries that legacy forward, reclaiming fragmentation as a creative and critical gesture.

Created through both digital and analog methods, the collages feature figures who embody dissent and transformation: Marsha P. Johnson, Genesis and Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge’s Pandrogyne Project, as well as close peers whose lives and art resist normative forms. Bodies are disassembled and reconfigured — not to erase their identities, but to multiply their meanings. In this space, monstrosity becomes a method; dissonance becomes agency.

The title comes from a hand-drawn phrase taped to the artist’s wall:

"Inventar una forma / Inventar un lugar / Ser lxs mostris / que creían imposibles."

It’s both a wish and a blueprint — to invent shapes for selves that don’t yet exist, and invent spaces where those selves might belong.