Like a house

In Spanish with Greek subtitles

Como una casa is a medium-length film that recounts Ainara's entire journey in Spain and the violence she suffered in Madrid's Centro de Internamiento de Extranjeros.

Ainara is a sex worker from Mexico who was isolated in Madrid´s Centro de Internamiento de Extranjeros because of her irregular documentation situation. Migrants who have been in a CIE can almost never share their experience because, after the period of detention, they are either deported or are released, but with a situation of irregularity that has as a consequence that they cannot identify themselves, nor denounce, nor tell their story for fear of a new confinement and/or deportation.

Taking as a reference the theater technique known as "Verbatim" -performances based on transcriptions of real testimonies-, Florencia Rojas has written a script based on the recording of a telephone conversation she had with Ainara. Her story questions us about issues such as sex work, the law on foreigners, the prison system or structural racism and machismo.

n this sense, it was important that the person who embodied Ainara's story was someone whose place of enunciation would question the issues that run through the story: Linda Porn is a Mexican artist and actress, sex worker and activist. In Como una casa, Linda Porn's performance is intermingled with real fragments of conversation with Ainara. There are two voices telling the same story, a voice to which we put body and another distant voice that we are unable to identify.

Credits:
4K Video (4096 x 2160), single channel, 25 fps, color, stereo sound
Duration: 29´35´´
Director: Florencia Rojas
Actress: Linda Porn
Script: Ainara & Florencia
Camera, lighting, and sound: Malasombra Estudio
Costume design: Catalina Castañón

Florencia Rojas, based in Spain, participating in the Art Explora Crossed Residency program in the Mediterranean, selected by Rosa Lleó for a month-long residency at ATOPOS cvc Office of Hydrocommons.

Florencia Rojas (Argentina, 1984) is a visual artist and researcher. She currently lives and works between Malaga and Madrid.

n 2023, she completed the "Tejidos Conjuntivos" Own Studies Program in Critical Museology, Artistic Research Practices, and Cultural Studies at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS). Previously, she received her MFA from the University of Málaga (2016) and her MA from EFTI International Center of Photography and Cinema (Madrid, 2008).

She has held solo exhibitions such as Como una casa (Galería Rosa Santos, Valencia, 2024), Avenida de los Poblados, sin número, curated by Jesús Alcaide (OTR., Madrid, 2022), and En los mismos ríos / Ibai berberetan (Festival Mapamundistas, Pamplona, 2021).

She has held solo exhibitions such as Como una casa (Galería Rosa Santos, Valencia, 2024), Avenida de los Poblados, sin número, curated by Jesús Alcaide (OTR., Madrid, 2022), and En los mismos ríos / Ibai berberetan (Festival Mapamundistas, Pamplona, 2021). Additionally, she has participated in numerous group exhibitions in artistic institutions such as Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid), CAAC (Seville), C3A (Córdoba), TEA (Tenerife), Sala de Arte Joven de la Comunidad de Madrid, Fundación Bilbaoarte, Matadero (Madrid), and the Centro Cultural España in Córdoba (Argentina).

Her career has been recognized in various open calls and residencies, such as Bienalsur (2025), Fotonoviembre 2023 (TEA Tenerife), the residency and production grant at Matadero Madrid (2023), the Ifitry residency (Morocco, 2022), Visual Arts Grants from the Community of Madrid (2021 and 2018), the residency grant at C3A (Andalusian Government, 2020), the 30th edition of the Circuitos de Artes Plásticas of the Community of Madrid (2019), the residency and production grant at Fundación Bilbaoarte (2015), and the Propuestas 2012 grant from VEGAP.

Her work is part of collections such as Museo CA2M, MUCAC, Universidad Nebrija, the Provincial Councils of Alicante and Málaga, the Andalusian Youth Institute, Fundación Bilbao Arte, Addaya Colecció, Colección Apertura, the University of Málaga, and the Genalguacil Pueblo Museo Collection.

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