During a Lecture/Performance by Grégory Castéra & Patricia Esquivias at WIELS, Council presented Manufacturing of Rights, the first phase of the inquiry The Against Nature Journal.

Patricia Esquivias has been scanning and photographing the decorative stucco facades of her hometown since 2013. In her frequent encounters with the manmade surfaces of a city, Esquivias pays particular attention to modest architecture and mines its local qualities to arrive at an understanding of the time and place in which it was created. In her lecture-performance Pongamos que hablo de Madrid (Let’s Say I’m Talking about Madrid, titled after a 1980 song by Joaquín Sabina and Antonio Sánchez), she tells the story of her initial and eventual impressions of these decorations.

The performance was preceded by a presentation of Grégory Castéra (Council, Paris), guest curator of the exhibition Foreign Places. Castera presents The Manufacturing of Rights, a research on the interpretation of Nature in laws and the representation of sexual diversity.