Dimensions: image: 296 x 460 mm
Copyright: © Paz Errazuriz | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Curator: This is Paz Errazuriz’s photograph, "Adam’s Apple", residing in the Tate Collection. It’s… well, it's quite striking, isn't it? Editor: Yes, immediately it’s the textures that grab me—the smooth skin against the grainy backdrop, the way light plays on different surfaces. It seems to be quite staged, or perhaps caught between performances? Curator: I think it captures a vulnerability, a self-awareness. The title, "Adam's Apple," adds a layer of gender play, a challenge to expectations. Editor: Absolutely. It brings up questions of labor too: the labour of performing gender, the physical materials of make-up, the photographic process itself, and how the labor of these aspects inform the narrative. Curator: It leaves me pondering identity, really, and the courage to embrace it. Editor: Agreed, it also makes me appreciate the artist's commitment to explore social themes.
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These intimate portraits show cross-dresser and transgender sex workers going about their everyday lives in Santiago, Chile. Living in the community for four years, Errazuriz was able to document it from within. She recalled, ‘I found a family that I wish had always been my own’. She took photographs in their homes, on the streets in their neighbourhood, and with friends and family. Under the military dictatorship (1973–1990), gender nonconforming people risked persecution. For nearly two decades the political situation prevented the images from being circulated. Only the underground and artistic communities were aware of their existence. Gallery label, December 2019
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