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In Orden y Secreto [Order and Secret], a show of work by Catalina Schliebener and Dani Umpi, experimentation with popular imaginaries where the innocence of childhood and the danger of the hidden are enmeshed formulates playful queer research into the shapes of language, the production of knowledge, and forms of community contact that we establish through that which names us. Using minority procedures like handicrafts, the artists take apart mass-culture artifacts such as entertainment magazines and children’s stories. With these deviated fragments, they venture a practical theory of queer …