During a warm summer day of 1957, Flavio de Carvalho, an engineer and avant-garde artist from São Paulo, walked from home to his workplace wearing a self made suit he had given the name of “New Look: summer fashion for a new man”.

Flavio de Carvalho Experiencia 3, São Paulo 1957

Troca-trocas is a curatorial platform aimed at researching artistic practices, aspects of vernacular culture and both legal and activist agendas that work with the construction of gender and sexuality within the context of the politics of representation and social participation of homosexuals, bisexuals and transgenders in Rio de Janeiro.

Through public and private encounters, workshops, exhibitions and publications, troca-trocas will facilitate ‘exchanges of knowledge’ (troca-trocas de conhecimento) with local artists, cultural agents, scholars, politicians and activists.