Si hay un lugar mágico donde se detiene el tiempo y del que no queremos salir mientras transcurren los días de enero, ese vórtex de tiempos anacrónicos, misterioso y único, es la Fiesta Grande de Enero.
Este semestre estamos también en el número de la revista LiminaR. Estudios Sociales y Humanísticos, del Centro de Estudios Superiores de México y Centroamérica de la Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, a quienes agradezco la invitación a colaborar con mis imágenes que dialogan con el material académico y de investigaciones que produce esta publicación científica multidisciplinaria, que para este número incluye una sección temática con artículos sobre “disidencias sexuales del sur”.
La obra que Roberto Tondopó propone en esta Galería muestra la construcción de subjetividades en transición, en un universo absurdo, irónico y violento, utilizando narrativas personales para explorar los límites de la intimidad, la comunidad y la familia, y los alcances de la fotografía como medio de representación. Sugiere la revisión de un entramado de realidad opresivo y represor, a la vez que permite construir el testimonio de una comunidad en constante transformación.
TRÁNSITO, based on altarpieces as a moving ex-votum links his father’s death with his transformation as Chuntá, allowing him to enter into the hybrid and border identities to which he belong, gradually liberated from the joyous nonchalance of socially silenced minorities, transforming tradition in a celebration of cultural diversity and sexual dissidence, to conceive a configuration of the alternative subjectivity of LGBTIQ+ individuals, in a recent spiritual chapter on this holiday with processes of resistance to a state prone to authoritarian drift.
Agradecido de colaborar para @terremoto_mx con la poderosa y necesaria reflexión de Materia oscura por Duen Sacchi para el n°23, como editor invitado, gracias por su amorosidad acompañante en esta invitación. Como la de mi querida @nadisvillafuerte34 por su compromiso y escrito ‘NILUYARILO’, a partir del imaginario de mis fotos y las Chuntás en la Fiesta Grande, desbordante, intrépido, festivo y punzante que son materia oscura, polvo de estrellas como la que @duensacchi propone, mientras reflexiona:
“Desde una perspectiva crítica, no sólo más allá del principio del placer, sino más acá de las prácticas somatopolíticas queer, me pregunto:
¿cuáles son nuestras relaciones eróticas con el pasado? ¿Podemos inventarnos una erogenealogía de nuestramérica? ¿Tenemos una
erohistoriografía propia sobre el trauma colonial y los placeres de las resistencias?” […] ¿En qué episodio de la saga deconstruyendo el amor colonial estamos?
De NILUYARILO:
“(…) aunque a todas se les notaba felices, libres, autoritarias, confundidas y solas, poseídas, inadecuadas, atrapadas en el tiempo, con el alma tenue y las ganas de yirar a pesar de ser melancólicas y carne para el flagelo. Arrecha la que no grite, soltó una y les agarró un ataque de risa. Esa noche los ancestros bailaron a su alrededor con una ferocidad alegre”
Grateful and honored with this recognition, and excited to start this journey together!
Agradecidos y honrados con este reconocimiento, emocionados de iniciar este viaje juntos!
Portrait/ Retrato: Panos Mary
#Repost @capriciouspublishing
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We are proud to announce two recipients for the 2022 Capricious Photo Award: Roberto Tondopó and Genesis Báez. The Capricious team and jury are elated to offer this award to two distinctly impactful photographers this year and begin collaboration on their respective projects.
Nos enorgullece anunciar lxs dos ganadores de Capricious Photo Award 2022: Roberto Tondopó y Genesis Báez. El equipo de Capricious y jurado están encantadxs de ofrecer el premio este año a dos fotógrafxs claramente impactantes, y comenzar la colaboración en sus respectivos proyectos.
BEST OF 2022 // Nuit de l'Année // Night of the Year
NUIT DE L’ANNÉE
Opening week’s unmissable festive event is back after a two-year hiatus. Visitors can take a visual promenade on the abandoned industrial site of the Papeteries Étienne, opened especially, to see over forty photographic proposals projected in a loop on giant screens (including one dedicated to Ukraine) or in the form of installations.
TRÁNSITO as part of The Night of the Year in Les Rencontres d'Arles 2022.
On Saturday, July 9, 2022, the Rencontres d’Arles will hold Night of the Year 2022, when photographs will be projected on the site of the former Papeteries Etienne in Arles (29, avenue de Camargue, F-13 200 Arles).
Thank you for the support and dedication provided by @alasdair.foster for this interview taken up from a while ago now for Talking Pictures, blessed to be among such great authors. Special thanks to Aunt They’s gang, including her whom we miss so much at this time, and Rubén Noriega’s family for these photos that portray such a personal and intimate imagery of the legend of the Fiesta Grande, about the act of healing. To my sister and nephews Andrea and Ángel. Thank you to everyone who continues to give me support and love in my artistic work, made with immense affection so that the community I identify with and my ancestors continue to shine.
#Repost @alasdair.foster with @make_repost
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It is the ambiguity of domestic intimacy that sits at the heart of the work of the Mexican photographer Roberto Tondopó [ @tondopo ]. His earlier photographs revisit his childhood home through an observation of his niece and nephew as they engage with the domestic space. For them, it is an environment where fantasy permeates reality in the ebb and flow of the adolescent imagination as they negotiate the transition from childhood to maturity.
Meanwhile, his more recent images explore the gender reversals enacted during the Grand Festival of Chiapa de Corzo in the mountains of southern Mexico. Here, every January, the men of this firmly patriarchal community cross-dress as women in a collective act that explores the more radical branches of identity while remaining firmly rooted in tradition. It is in this ongoing project the artist discovers a form of redemptive transformation.
Las historias del Festival de Photo Vogue siempre son maravillosas. Este año, la serie que presento es sobre Las Chuntá, que practican crossdressing durante la celebración de San Sebastián en Chiapas. Reflexiono sobre el binarismo de género cómo práctica colonial y la genealogia de la sexualidad disidente en Chiapas.
Bendecido de estar entre los increíbles autores participantes este año. El Photo Vogue Festival inicia hoy 18 de noviembre al domingo 21 en Milán y en la plataforma del festival en línea. Gracias por el apoyo, amor y dedicación brindado por el festival @alessiaglaviano @maranif @ricacerbanaro @base_milano
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The stories from the Photo Vogue Festival are always wonderful. This year, the series I present is about the community of Las Chuntá, which practices crossdressing during the celebration of San Sebastián in Chiapas. I reflect on gender binarism as a colonial practice and the genealogy of dissident sexuality in Chiapas. Blessed to be among the amazing participating authors this year. The Photo Vogue Festival starts today November 18 to Sunday 21 in Milan and on the online festival platform. Thank you for the support, love and dedication provided by the team of this festival @alessiaglaviano @maranif @ricacerbanaro @filomena_fittipaldi @base_milano
A project by PhotoIreland, OVER Journal launched its first issue in July 2020, and it has enjoyed a growing interest reaching rapidly all corners of the global market, from Zurich to Los Angeles. The publication, billed as ‘The Critical Journal of Photography and Visual Culture for the 21st century’, is co-edited by Aidan Kelly Murphy, Julia Gelezova, and Ángel Luis González, and is currently the only photography publication in Ireland, produced with the generous support of the Arts Council of Ireland.
For its second issue, the editors have worked with writers and thinkers Julie Chun, Anna Ehrenstein, Orla Fitzpatrick, Yvette Hamilton, Camille Lévêque, Sue Rainsford, Rashi Rajguru, Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Duncan Wooldridge.
In addition, a succulent and eclectic selection of practices manifests through the works of Hoda Afshar, Lewis Bush, Jean Curran, Irene Antonia Diane Reece, Audrey Gillespie, Kelvin Haizel, Iris Hassid, Federica Landi, Roberto Tondopó, and Bindi Vora.
OVER journal critically focuses on aspects often overlooked that affect the discipline, zooming out to observe the whole scene, to analyse what exactly is happening, what power relationships are at play. It is about preventing the repetition of obsolete and flawed structures, as much as highlighting the work of those who constructively are expanding what we still call Photography into new horizons. More than a portfolio magazine, it is a space for reflection on new practices, new ways of thinking.
TRÁNSITO (doc-experimental de 5’), se presenta este 12 de noviembre dentro de la 5a edición de Ocote: Miradas Encendidas,muestra de cine en San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México.
Del 5 al 20 de noviembre de 2021.
TRÁNSITO, obra principalmente fotográfica, es un corto ensayo que a base de retablos a manera de exvoto en movimiento vincula la muerte de mi padre con mi transformación como Chuntá paulatinamente liberado desde el jubiloso desenfado de minorías socialmente silenciadas, transformando la tradición en una celebración de la diversidad cultural y la disidencia sexual.
TRÁNSITO, a mainly photographic work, is a short essay that, based on altarpieces as an ex-voto in motion, links the death of my father with my transformation as Chuntá, gradually liberated from the joyous nonchalance of socially silenced minorities, transforming tradition into a celebration of cultural diversity and sexual dissidence.
It is screened today in the official selection of the 5th edition of Ocote: Miradas Encendidas, a film show in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chis., Mexico.
La maqueta del libro ‘Tránsito’ hasta esta semana en Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award 2021 📚, en el Espacio Van Gogh del festival en Arles, Francia.
Las maquetas de los libros ganadores y nominados están exhibiéndose.
Es un honor haber estado entre los 11 finalistas al premio, de 140 trabajos inscritos de 32 países este año.
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[ENG] Tránsito’s dummy book was shortlisted and you can see it at @rencontresarles festival. It is an honor to be among the 11 finalists from 140 works submitted, from 32 countries this year. The projects pre-selected for the 2021 Dummy Book Award were:
MARIO CAPRIOTTI with Sedimenti GUILLAUME CHAMAHIAN with Nom de code César FLORENCIA GRISANTI & TITO GONZALEZ GARCIA with Mapuñuke, leaf witnesses YOUQINE LEFÈVRE with The Land of Promises THOMAS MAILAENDER with Life and adventures of a silver woman on planet earth DILLON MARSH with Diamond Coast ROBERTO MOLINA TONDOPÓ with Tránsito ROMAIN MONCET with Collection MOE SUZUKI with Sokohi LUCREZIA ZANARDI with Present Traces of a Past Existence: A Photographic Research MARTINA ZANIN with I Made Them Run Away.
The winner of the Dummy Book 2021 was Moe Suzuki with Sokohi. There’s one week left of this year in the Espace Van Gogh.
#Repost@rencontresarles with @make_repost ・・・ Retrouvez le Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award à l'espace Van Gogh. Ce prix récompense la meilleure maquette de livre ; sont exposées celles de la lauréate et des sélectionné·e·s. https://bit.ly/3nH6xCd ______
Check out the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award at the Espace Van Gogh. A prize for the best book design. Winning and nominated dummy books are exhibited. https://bit.ly/2Z86Con
