JORGE RICO

‘Bodies’ – the limits of the body and how to break through them. Marina, photographed by Jorge Rico.

”Marina usually told me how it would feel to have another body. They has fantasized about having big breasts, having a vagina, having big muscles, having a lot of hair. Drag allows them to perform femininity and gender, as if it were a defined bubble gum that I stretch and deform, but the body remains the same.
The bodies that Manuela makes are real bodies, molds of existing people. We wanted to get closer to a non-canonical female body, it is not a dissident body either. But the idea of dressing a body interested us, because probably the body is, together with the imagination, the only thing to hold onto when we talk about drag.”