Over the past two years, Catarina Botelho has been searching, with limited success, for traces and information about the group portraits from the First Conference of Lesbian Women of the Spanish State, which took place in Madrid in 1980.
The three warm-toned, slightly out-of-focus photographic prints/images show a group of women sitting on a pavement. The sequence seems to be an attempt at a panoramic view. Some of the women change position between shots, creating a slight swaying motion, a minimal choreography. Their faces reflect something that oscillates between joy and anticipation, between celebration and restraint.
Although the event took place relatively recently, apart from the few women who were identified, discovering who the subjects are has proven nearly impossible. This lack of names, stories and memory became the starting point for the publication of Portraits, a collective exercise in imagination and reparation.