Compañerx, The Performance Piece
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The artistic performance of Compañerx took place on July 31st, 2024, to accompany the official filing to congress of the Ley Integral Tras in Bogota, Colombia. In partnership with Liga de Salud Trans and Plataforma Ley Integral Trans, Ya!, Falquez directed more than 150 trans and non-binary performers and activists that travelled to the cap- ital from more than 30 regions to be a part of that historical moment.
The performance was Led by the sound of a cumbia gaita, played by Ceiba an indigenous trans musician, and the chants of La Poderosa, a renowned afrocolombian queer activist and singer from Urabá. To their music followed a a procession of 50 large fabrics, printed with the portraits of the project shot by Falquez and weaved into the 67 ar- ticles of the Ley Integral Trans.The march headed towards Plaza de Bolívar, where Colombia’s con- gress is located, and where the Ley Integral Trans, Ya! was to be filed minutes after the arrival of the performance to the square.
Upon the arrival to Plaza de Bolívar, a red and circular large scale structure designed by architect Sarai Olabarrieta, served as a space to elevate the portraits, creating an ephimeral sculpture with the aim of humanizing and dignifying Colombia’s trans and non-binary bodies in a specific political moment crucial to the history and survival of the community.Compañerx became a rare opportunity for active contemplation and dialogue between photography and legal instruments and between he- gemonic spaces and social efforts to achieve equality and liberation.
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