INVENT A WAY, INVENT A PLACE

Inventar una forma, inventar un lugar was the beggining of the collage explorations developed at UNTREF under the mentorship of artist and curator Rosana Schoijett, later reimagined as a hand-bound fanzine of 20 copies.

The title comes from a phrase by artist Luli Fishbowl; the first work I ever bought from another trans artist, hand-drawn and taped to my wall:

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

Both a wish and a blueprint. To invent shapes for selves that don't yet exist, and spaces where those selves might belong.

Collage has always been a medium of interruption. The act of cutting and pasting has never been purely aesthetic, it's political. This fanzine carries that legacy forward, reclaiming fragmentation as a critical gesture.

The collages feature figures who are foundational, not just to queer and trans history, but to my own understanding of identity, community, protest, and the body.

Bodies are disassembled and reconfigured. Not to erase their identities, but to multiply their meanings.

The fanzines were hand-bound by me, using the French link stitch binding technique, printed on thick off-white paper. All 20 copies were given away for free, distributed at celebratory event at the British Embassy in Buenos Aires, where I was invited as a distinguished LGBTIQ+ Argentinian activist.