Making Space

On laSal Feminist Infrastructure Making in the Spanish Trasition

Abstract

This article examines the collective laSal (Barcelona, 1977–1990) as a key feminist infrastructure within the post-dictatorial Spanish state Drawing on the notion of infrastructure as a network of relations, knowledge, and care practices, it analyses how LaSal—both a feminist library-bar and publishing house—articulated collective forms of organisation that connected art, activism, and knowledge production. Its editorial work created spaces for the circulation of feminist and transfeminist thought within a context marked by censorship and institutional fragility. The article also explores its later reception at the Museo Reina Sofía, where the patrimonialisation of its materials exposes the tension between recognition and political deactivation. Through laSal, the text proposes understanding the building of feminist infrastructures as a labour of care that sustains collective life and repairs the fractures of democratic memory.