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TransLatina exhibited at El Barrio's Artspace PS109

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TransLatina exhibited at El Barrio's Artspace PS109

joana toro

Jul 16, 2024

Location: nyc

The' Translatina' series was exhibited in April 2024 at El Barrio Artspace PS109 as part of the Women Street Photographers and Leica Women Festival, a group exhibition. The series presents collaborative portraits of transgender Latina immigrants from Central and South America living in New York City as they face discrimination and cope with the psychological consequences of their personal histories of sexual violence and discrimination. These images are an allegory to the fantasies and challenges of each transgender woman who participates in the project. TransLatinas aims to document these women by portraying them as strong and resilient women who are worthy of respect rather than simply as victims deserving of pity.

El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 is a community-driven project that has transformed an abandoned public school building in East Harlem into an arts facility with 89 units of affordable live/work space for creatives and their families and 10,000 square feet of complementary space for arts organizations. PS109 will serve the El Barrio community by creating permanently affordable live/work housing in a neighborhood at risk of gentrification.

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