Ancestrale is a hybrid project combining photography and immersive video installation, developed through a long-term collaborative process with trans women from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. At its core is a photographic series that emerged from months of encounters, conversations and shared time, allowing fragments of personal histories to surface: memories of childhood, family ties, transition, fear, resilience and everyday life.

Rather than constructing a linear narrative, the series approaches these lives through intimate moments and gestures that reveal the complexity of existing. The photographs move between two visual registers that dialogue with one another: black-and-white portraits centered on the presence and gaze of the protagonists, and color documentary images depicting fragments of their daily environments—homes, streets, relationships and ordinary situations.

While the portraits create a space of intimacy and direct encounter, the documentary scenes expand the frame to include the territories and contexts in which these lives unfold. Together, these images form a visual constellation where memory, identity and everyday life coexist without hierarchy.

The photographic series forms part of the larger project Ancestrale, which also includes an immersive video installation constructed from the participants’ testimonies. Through this work, the project seeks to broaden the visual representation of trans women in Bolivia, creating a space of visibility grounded in intimacy, dignity and shared humanity.