MY GIRLFRIEND IS A BOOK OF VOICES

MI COMPAÑERA ES UN LIBRO DE VOCES

transcripts of voices of strength and worth

[ENG] [ESP]

Publication company of the installation MONUMENT containing speeches, conversations and texts by women that performed as activists and public defenders of human rights.

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210pp, self-published, printed in Zurich, Dec 2019 and Denver 2020

LETTERS FROM ONION ISLAND

A FICTIONAL EPISTOLARY PRACTICE

A fictional love letter exchange between Paloma Ayala and chicana writer Gloria Anzaldüa.

ABOUT the project

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36pp, self-published, printed in Zürich, April 2019

USE THE SPACE
USE IT, YOU MUST
Sex, space and imagination

About gendered spaces in one of the biggest urban environments in the world. This publication materializes personal perspectives of different encounters that happened with ladies in New Delhi.

27.5 x 39cm, 10pp, self-published
Written in New Delhi and Zurich
Printed in Mexico, Jan 2019

MONTERREY METRÓPOLI,

DIARIO DE LOS NUEVOS DISTRITOS
Publication containing fictional articles that address social realities in the northeastern city of Monterrey, Mexico.

Part of the series FICTITIOUS NEWS

Edited by Marcela Torres and Paloma Ayala

Design by Futuro Moncada

Offset, 2 inks, 20.5 x 26cm, 48pp, printed in Monterrey, Mexico

2016

Conversations between Epizoochory

in MOBILE SOILS

Edited by Anne-Laure Franchette, Jose Caceres Mardones, Gabriel N.Gee

Published by TETI Press

2021

Published Texts

El Fin de la Mar Caribe

In collaboration with Javier Dragustinovis

A publication describing a US/MX border relationship with the tropical south. "Matamoros is a city that ‘officially’ marks the end of the imagination of Mexico, but affectively, demographically and culturally joins with Brownsville Texas in a longer united History developed over generations of humans settled in the Valley of the Bravo/Río Grande river."

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80pp, self-published, printed in Matamoros, Mexico. Oct 2019

PUBLICATIONS

A space to...

#1 LOVE, #2 BE QUEER, #3 LIVE, #4 CHANGE

Series created during the fanzine-making workshop in Platteforum during 3 months were teenagers investigated, interviewed, drew, wrote, and photographed about topics related to how do we ocuppy public spaces.

12cm x 21cm , 24pp, self-published
Printed in Denver,

2020

WE THE INEVITABLY INTERCONNECTED

created in the fanzine-making workshop in collaboration with Decolonize Zurich

40pp

12 x 19cm

self-published

printed in Zurich

July 2021

Self-published fanzines

We stand before the plant as researchers before infinity
Set of fanzines commissioned by the Trans:plant performance group composed by Emilia Giudicelli and Gregoire Paultre

Texts by Eva de Wit and Paloma Ayala

Photos by Lisa Maatjens
Drawings by Paloma Ayala
16pp, 2 booklets, 16 x 22 cm, self-published

Oct 2019

Travel Through t(HERE)

in ART & CRISIS, A Polyphonic Research on the Contemporary
MFA Degree Show publication

Edited by Donatella Bernardi
ISBN: 978-3-03764-525-3
Softcover, 160 x 228 mm, 320 pages
Published by JRP Ringier

2018

ARCHIVE (2015-2018)

of PREVIOUS PROJECTS

SABER BIEN

in Schpensa Online Archive

Edited by Violeta Burckhardt, Anne-Laure Franchette and Bettina Tschuor.

Commissioned by Arvae, 2022

https://schpensa.ch/

2022

#MANIFESTO

Collection of hashtags following different feminist concerns, provided by visitors of VOLUMES Independent Publications Fair.
Part of MEXA! The Female Takeover, independent publications made by women in Mexico, curated by Paloma Ayala and Adriana Domínguez
This #Manifesto supports the right of women to live a safe and free life.
#Fuckgenderviolence
#Primerolasmujeres
luegolasparedes

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20pp, self-published, printed in Zürich, Dec 2019