Trans-Meat
Trans-Meat (2015) is a collaboration with Sam Brown that goes beyond the narratives placed upon Ecuadorian women’s bodily flesh. In Quito, we hyper-stylized twelve local female archetypes such as a heart-torn Quinceañera, a merry widow, an exhausted stripper and a desiring virgin. Through these characters we remixed memories of Ecuadorian women from all walks of life with elements of drag, popular Ecuadorian culture, Japanese ukiyo-e prints and American pop.
In women’s quotidian spaces, we created performances for the camera as tableaux photography. A hair salon, a market, a bathroom and a sex motel became scenarios where femininity can be redrawn.
Trans-meat has been exhibited at the Contemporary Art Center, the Camilo Egas Museum and the Arte Actual Gallery in Quito, Ecuador.
![The Merry Widow, 2015Photo-performance](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61cbbb22e0491a315e46a9f4bef1faa04e3e575b64faf9f5d707476572faf363/11_TM_01_Astro.jpg)
![Old Hen, 2015Photo-performance](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e7e5de8f9d5d4e619e51c3b8d8ca9d09516f85a775ff0d0d5d4d671eeb4c8d7/11_TM_02_Astro.jpg)
![Still Life (Hair and Blood), 2015Photo-performance](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c29200cb307d4af658d4816f3265eae0c9242d75c68ee5e95214b4d249cf562/11_TM_03_Astro.jpg)
![Je Joue, 2015Photo-performance](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/944f7c67be66049216afb03fa646f14932cf6a5783113c4caf3267933896ecb9/11_TM_04_Astro.jpg)
![The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife (after Hokusai), 2015Photo-performance](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4060bd99443eeb3b24ce4059b719d1e4c3a210f9503a204be8c7e2bdb56482e6/11_TM_05.jpg)
![5 Queens, 2015Photo-performance](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/083ca1b0a7e36d88baf71d6612c3d1fa1b032593b14522aba0d41b101eefa763/11_TM_6_Astro.jpg)
![Kamila and the Quinceañera Heart, 2015Photo-performance](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b19c8d6416d113922905481d49db4c6872dd54bb648306446753715935fe7559/11_TM_7_Astro.jpg)
![Capitalist Pigs for Sale, 2015Photo-performance](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/459e3fa312fa15f069858f00c3581ed727c8dc22adf041aebabfe84e1bd6a155/11_TM_8_Astro.jpg)
![Unicornio Mall, 2015Photo-performance](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/27cec70dfab1ff49a4e8e5b272ea222452a825f1d916e23ffedc25a66308f921/11_TM_10_Astro.jpg)
![Queer Butterfly, 2015Photo-performance](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/68a959e88fe8dab2e6aa2ed39c4c3437e7c636aa7d04ad001b32efaab8979e02/11_TM_9_Astro.jpg)
![La Che Monroe, 2015Photo-performance](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f37c073e9e21c0d4ecec24075633f1462eab5f05553621dde6c86c53de05ef8e/11_TM_11_Astro.jpg)
![Temporary Fruits, 2015Photo-performance](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9021d3dc67210768654317f4e6a79fec121fbbc3de1025ed5830e2f0921f583/11_TM_12_Astro.jpg)
![Pollo Gus (after Hopper), 2015Photo-performance](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a38b798638b4f89504da31ea9bb58a6e9130ee61eaad74fdff9dbe7b67c3de9/11_TM_13_Astro.jpg)
Exhibitions
Trans-meat
Arte Actual, Quito, Ecuador, 2015
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Chromos / Carne
Center of Contemporary Art (CAC), Quito, Ecuador, 2017
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![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f15345b09fed29a170e986e05fb1d8ee0b4dbaec5f64b20cb3a6a9d06e6b924/11_TM_20_Astro.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c95377c21ff4ece881faec98e557635f9247c1b7f592fdf950772bec06402049/11_TM_21_Astro.jpg)