VICENTA PERROTTA

Atacama gown by Vicenta Perrotta

Project Transmutadoras Latinas

In collaboration with Jens Aguila de la Cordillera and Malo Nicolas in Iquique, Atacama Desert, Chile 

2024

Upcycled pieces from vertederos in Alto Hospicio

 

Since 2013, Vicenta Perrotta has been running training sessions for transgender people at their Transmoras Atelier in the state of São Paulo, using discarded clothes and leftovers. The Transmutadoras project is all about bringing together former trans students to become facilitators of textile transmutation – a truly inspiring endeavour. The Atacama gown is part of the Transmutações Latinas project. Working with local artists Jens Aguila de la Cordillera and Malo Nicolas, Perrotta transmuted some of the 39,000 tonnes of garments dumped in this part of Chile each year into a new gown. This piece is a collective manifesto on the importance of reframing textile waste and second-hand clothes, and raising awareness of the impact of a society that seems to revel in the act of discarding.

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