Schreber is a Woman is a meditation on Daniel Paul Schreber (1842–1911), a German judge committed to a psychiatric institution in 1894. While in confinement, Schreber experienced visions and heard voices as he reflected on cosmology, sexuality, religion, and a consuming desire for gender transformation, believing it to be divinely orchestrated. El Palomar re-envision Schreber’s rich inner world from a transfeminist perspective. Made during the social isolation of the early Covid-19 pandemic, the installation recuperates historic struggles for bodily autonomy, self-determination, and joy.

El Palomar, an expanded art project led by Ama Sánchez and R. Marcos Mota, is dedicated to the research and production of contemporary queer art projects anchored in the history of sexual and gender dissidence. El Palomar was founded in Barcelona in 2013.