- “Gaykeeping”
- Interview by Fernanda Saval, 2025
Fernanda Saval and Carlo Canún engage in a conversation as they reflect on ways of sharing, reinterpreting, and reimagining queer archives through graphic design as expressions of both collective and personal memory.
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- Making Thought: an interview with Hélène Smith
Editing and research, 2025
Hélène Smith was a French medium, psychic, writer, and painter in the late 19th century, celebrated by the surrealists as the “muse of automatic writing” or “psychography.” Jacques Lacan referred to her as “the delirious clairvoyant with the marvelous name,” while André Breton described her as a “human document.” Her groundbreaking work left a profound mark on psychoanalysis and the exploration of the unconscious.
#7 in the series “Exercises in Practical Mischievery” edited by Aubrie Savage.
- “The memory of our library”
- Writing, 2025
A text written in the form of a love letter about a collection assembled through correspondence, woven together in between distances. It opposes to the idea that the language of love is universal. This text came together by gathering memories from my shared media library with someone who is far away.
Published in Suave Magazine issue 6, edited by Santiago Martínez Alberú.
Writing, 2024
A visual essay about my reading practice related to obsessive behaviors and being gay. Throughout personal experiences related to my sexuality, I expand on the books I have been reading, proposing a bibliography that goes against the canon and that is supported by randomness, recommendations and lived experiences.
Published in Leida issue 4 ‘Care after Care,’ edited by Taavi Hallimäe.
Writing, 2024
The term ‘nightability’ comes from my project Infected lexicon of language and means “the opportunity that the night gives one to be themselves. nightability conceals and protects, it supports an alternative world where one can live between reality and fiction in order to fulfill certain desires; to become one’s true self.” Followed by a failed attempt into finding cruising spots in Tallinn, this short text reflects upon the significance of the night and public spaces as repositories for queer stories.
Published in Catalog issue 25, ‘How to get → there’ edited by Lieven Lahaye.
Infected lexicon of language
Writing and research, 2023–ongoing
The infected lexicon of language is an ever-growing web archive of words and terms I’ve created to propose a new vocabulary which responds to my experience of growing up in a world dominated by the heteronormative, the binary and the religious. The words relate to my own memories, fantasies and fears, and have been informed by the things I have been watching, reading, and listening to in the past years.
The infected lexicon of language explores language as a virus that has the power to remember, record and actualize. For this reason, the words are published and circulated through wearables that work as walking-billboards, aiming for such terms to enter legitimate usage.
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Fabulations of Exiluity
Writing, editing and compiling, 2023
exiluity (noun): a non-physical, imaginary state created for someone who is distant, not present or out of reach, due to a lack of empirical evidence on another person’s everyday life.
Fabulations of Exiluity is a 18 short-story publication where the participants were asked to use lying as a tool of creating an alternate reality. With contributions by Howie Reynolds, José Miguel Ramírez, Spatze Neschtl, Greta Thorkelsdóttir, Alexandra Margetic, Rita Davis, Ott Kagovere, Matty Kneppa, Miriam Humm, Charlotte York, Patrick Zavadskis, Otso Peräsaari, Rebeca Leal, Mark Foss, and Laura Pappa; and illustrations by Urtina Hoxha
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Writing and research
The research for Glory Holes started from a memory I had from being a gay child in Mexico City: I remember my father telling me that “if you have passed the age 41 without becoming a homosexual, then you are free of becoming one.” Years later, I learned that this homophobic myth was created as a consequence of a police raid in 1901 which detained 41 gay men in a cross-dressing ball; a key event for Mexican queer history. Focusing primarily on the queer history of Mexico, Glory Holes explores the necessity of ephemeral forms in which queer history is archived: through gossip, re-appropriation, sociolinguistics, myths, feelings, and fiction.
Published in Spanish by Tumbalacasa ediciones, 2025.
Published in English by the Estonian Academy of Arts, 2022.
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Encyclopedia of Creatures, People, Places, Events, Tools and Publications
Editing and compiling, 2022
‘Fictitious entries’ are deliberately incorrect entries in reference works. Also known as Mountweazel, trap street, paper town, phantom settlement, and nihilartikel. ‘Ghost words’ generally originate from a typographical or linguistic error. Once authoritatively published, a ghost word occasionally may be copied widely and enter legitimate usage.
This publication aims to take a look closer at how knowledge is constructed by questioning the agency of traditional formats of information to call something veridic, as well as their ability to blend reality and fiction.
#5 in the series “Exercises in Practical Mischievery” edited by Aubrie Savage.
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