Feel Good Cooperative
Feel Good Cooperative is an art collective of Colombian transgender sex workers and their allies, born in Rome during the lockdown of Spring 2020. The Cooperative was born thanks to the initiative of artist Pauline Curnier Jardin, photographer and sex worker Alexandra Lopez and architect and researcher Serena Olcuire.
The collective understands art as a space of expression and economic compensation for subjectivities that are traditionally marginalised, stigmatised and excluded from the possibility of self-representation. The works of the Feel Good Cooperative have been exhibited in several cities, including Rome, Berlin, Genoa, Bonn and Cologne.
The Feel Good Cooperative is based on ever-changing affective and working relationships. They constitute a relational plot that has generated affections, but at the same time has brought epistemological, authorial and political issues into play. These relationships are the engine that drives a constantly changing process, compelling all the members of the group to expose themselves to discomfort, with incredible creative and subversive potential.
Beginning with a drawing workshop, the Cooperative’s experience continues in a collective training course on different artistic techniques: performance, printmaking, metalwork. Through the study and re-appropriation of these techniques, the Feel Good Cooperative proposes new imaginaries and fresh, interwoven gazes on the phenomena it traverses and investigates.
The collective’s works are choral and, starting from the embodied experiences of all the members, propose multiple visions, which are intended to disturb smooth, monolithic and normative representations of reality.
The composition of the Feel Good Cooperative is changeable depending on the projects.
The hard core of the Cooperative to date consists of: Pauline Curnier Jardin, Serena Olcuire, Alexandra Lopez, Giuliana Mira and Gilda Star.
Also taking part in the work of the Cooperative are: Barby de Martinez, Diana Veruzca Martinez, Andrea, Alexandra Mapuchina, Morop’sillita Manuela.
Collaborators, allies and friends of the Cooperative:
Martina Silvi, Rachel Garcia, Colin Ledoux, Elisa Giuliano, Valerio Del Baglivo, Aneta Rostkowska, Kris Dittel, Chiara Siravo, LOCALES, Sofia Lanusse, Iván Argote, Veronika Čechová and Jindřich Chalupecký Society, Lorenzo Romito e Giulia Fiocca.
Selection of projects and exhibitions:
