During these past months I’ve been working on the lineages that generate strange geometries. I have researched, researched, and researched things that do not easily allow themselves to be seen. All the paths are holes, thin corridors, not so clear, not so visible, subterranean, underground. And yet we all wear dark glasses. To access the materials that interested me in this investigation, I had to resort to paranormality, telepathy, time travel, tarot, and oracles; I also had to connect with a sticky memory that, while pulling backward, advances in other directions, escaping horizontally, clinging to everything it touches, to the surface of bodies. A sticky memory that leaves traces of past encounters that reactivate upon contact with the present, as Sara Ahmed proposes.
I came up against the limits of “evidence” while trying to uncover other stories that do not fit within a traditional archival logic. I had to initiate a secret investigation because I deal with secret matters—things that we queer people have not wanted to be found by just anyone. The working method is labyrinthine and requires charlatanism in order to access the information. Performative charlatanism, charlatanism as a way of existing in the world and being able to tell stories that are supposedly “invented” and do not construct an image of “reality.”
Elena Castro Córdoba is my accomplice, together with Lucía Egaña Rojas. Three charlatans inventing lineages, exploring secret histories, practicing “dubious sciences” to—who knows—raise up some stories that contrast with those we take for granted. The gesture is to drag. The verb is to drag. This piece begins with this temporal movement that drags. Dragging is a type of temporality, one in which we live.
Lu is a resident selected through the public call of Graner 2025 in the research modality.
- Monday, December 1, 2025
- At Graner: c/ Jane Addams 14 (location)
- At 6 p.m.
- Free entry until full capacity is reached
Elena Castro Córdoba:
She holds a PhD in Feminist and Gender Studies from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, awarded Excellent Cum Laude. She completed a Master’s degree in Gender, Media and Culture at Goldsmiths University (London) and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is a researcher in contemporary aesthetics, archives, temporal politics, and feminisms, and co-creator of the cultural and artistic production collective Ontologías Feministas, specialized in visual and digital culture from a feminist perspective.
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