Image Politics and Disturbing Temporalities: On “Sex Change” Operations in the Early Chilean Dictatorship

Fernanda Carvajal is a sociologist, teacher, and researcher at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and a postdoctoral fellow at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, CONICET). She holds a master's in communication and culture and a PhD in social sciences. She resides in Buenos Aires and works on crossings between art, politics, and sexuality since the 1970s in Chile. She is a member of the groups “Art, Culture and Politics in Argentina,” directed by Ana Longoni, and “Micropolitics of Sexual Disobedience in Contemporary Argentine Art,” directed by Fernando Davis. She coordinates the Southern Conceptualisms Network, from which she formed the curatorial team of the exhibition Losing the Human Form: A Seismic Image of the 1980s in Latin America at Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid (2012), Lima (2013), and Buenos Aires (2014). She is working together with Alejandro de la Fuente on the compilation of the Mares of the Apocalypse Archive.