A presentation on Matriarchiva was delivered in Lisbon as part of the program Laboratório Migrante de Auto-Edição, hosted by Culturgest – Fundação Caixa Geral de Depósitos in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut and COLAPSO.
The talk addressed the relationship between housing struggles and revolutionary architecture during the Carnation Revolution, drawing from the activation of the archive of Mexican-Lebanese architect Josefina Mena-Abraham. The presentation forms part of ongoing research developed within my doctoral work, focusing on feminist archival practices and the intersections of architecture, memory, and political transformation.
The program brought together a group of artists, researchers, and practitioners engaging with questions of political, economic, and ecological collapse, as well as the role of self-publishing, cartography, and collective image-making. Sessions included reflections on desire and hegemony (with Lorena Salamanca), performative urban memory in Lisbon (with Ana Gariso, Claudia Madeira, and Patricia Pereira), and collaborative workshops in zine and poster production (with Valentina Bedoya).
This context situates Matriarchiva within a broader field of experimental, collective, and critical practices that reconsider the archive as an active, situated, and transformative system.