This fanzine was created as part of the Cuerpo-Travesía project, coordinated by Javier Vaquero and Marina Santo with the support of Intermediae Matadero. The aim was to visually translate a cultural mediation experience centered on the moving body as a tool for connection, memory, and community.
My role was to design the editorial piece that brought together materials created during the sessions: fragments of personal stories, the collective manifesto, and—most importantly—illustrations made by the participants themselves throughout the process. Most of the images were scanned directly from the drawings they created during the workshops.
Although my role focused on graphic design, I had the chance to attend one of the sessions in person, which allowed me to experience the group’s energy up close and connect with the kind of visual expressiveness that was emerging. That experience guided many of the design decisions: respecting the spontaneity of the drawings, organizing without correcting, and creating an editorial structure that supports without imposing.
This fanzine is intended as a visual trace of a collective process. Through design, my task was to care for that memory—keeping the participants’ voices, gestures, and marks at the center. It also shows how visual communication, when used to accompany affective, political, and shared processes without imposing a predefined form, can allow identity to emerge from within.
Open dance
Photography: INTERMEDIÆ Matadero Madrid
