Abstract
Location: Museum of Contemporary art of Panama in Panama City, Panama.
Originally shown at La Virreina Museum of Art in Barcelona, Spain (2021), The Rhea’s Footprint was presented at MAC Panama as a visual essay narrating the ‘counter-history’ of travesti/trans/non-binary bodies from the global south.
In the words of the curators, Duen Sacchi and Mag de Santo:
“We present here a constellation of intuitions, knowledges and practices on the colonial invention of bodies based on the imposition of a hierarchy of skintone, sexuality, gender and ethnic identity and the banning of certain individual and community erotic, visual and spiritual practices. We will attempt to attest to the powerful beauty of the invocations against the effects of the colonial trauma and the permanent resistance against it in our bodies. The exhibition The Rhea’s Footprint (Or How We Transform Silences) enables us to chart a counter-history of bodies that today we would term transvestite/trans/non-binary.”
Official website: https://macpanama.org/blogs/exposiciones-pasadas/la-pisada-del-nandu
