Inauguration High technology Transvestite Let trans be law!

On Thursday, September 30, 2021, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., the artist Rubén Antón, director of the Barcelona LGTBIQ+ ‘Drag is Burning‘ historical memory project, presents a unique collection of 16 vector printed portraits at the L’Art i Café Gallery in Sitges on canvas that enhance the historical memory of artists and trans references, of great influence within and outside our artistic community, and promote the fight for a comprehensive trans law that is more than necessary in Spain and internationally.

Exhibition from 30th of September to 28th November 2021

at the L’Art i Café gallery, carrer Joan Tarrida 10-12 in Sitges. Free access.

This exhibition celebrates ‘Transvestite High Technology’ and pays tribute to the artistic trajectory of characters such as Dolly Van Doll, businesswoman and creator of the Belle Époque shows in Valencia and Barcelona. Bibi Andersen as an actress and super star of the golden age of music halls and cabarets. Elsa Ruiz as youtuber, comedian and stand-up comedian. Carla Antonelli as the first and only Spanish trans deputy from 2011 to 2021.

Yani Forner as the first trans woman to star in a film in Spanish cinema. Nico Elsker as a burlesque actor. Valeria Vegas as a journalist and writer. Amanda Araújo as a performer and visual poet migrants from nudity and reaffirmation of the trans body. Coccinelle as a Parisian star from the 1950s to the 1990s; She is also the first trans person to have a street with his name in Europe ‘La Promenade de Coccinelle’ in Paris, since 2017.

Amanda Lear as Dalí’s muse from the 60s and 70s art scene. Daniela Santiago as an international actress and model. Dana International as the first and only trans woman who won the Eurovision Song Contest and Translocura as a singer from the Raval district of Barcelona who in her lyrics stands up to gender roles, drug use and heteronorm from dissent.

In addition, this sample includes new additions to the collection with the portraits of Eva Pérez de los Cobos, a star who starred in the film ‘Dressed in Blue’ in 1983, being the first documentary film to hit theaters in Spain showing the lives of 6 trans identities. Candy Darling as an iconic actress in 70s New York. Muse Andy Warhol, David Bowie or Lou Reed, who was inspired by her to compose several songs. And the plastic artist Lorenza Böttner, who made a sharp critique of her life and work against the double discrimination to which trans people are subjected and also functionally diverse, since she painted her works with her feet.

With this, the author proposes to give a space to reflection on HIGH TRAVESTÍ TECHNOLOGY and the needs of trans people, as an essential part of the LGTBIQ+ collective, which always, and only because they exist, are at the forefront of this fierce struggle for our rights.

Thanks to the L’Art i Café gallery for giving us the perfect space to show this exhibition and to the LGBTIQ + Colors Sitges Link association for helping us with the dissemination and allowing us to be part of the program of Colors Sitges Queer Fest 2021.