The work of Violeta Paez Armando (Cordoba, Argentina, 1994) sits in the interstices of sculpture, writing, and theory. Informed by queer and decolonial discourses, her practice deals with questions of permeability, malleability, and monstrosity. Absence, twice removed is a speculative fiction story constructed both through sculpture and text. It is a modification of the story of Echidna, a monster in Greek mythology considered to be the mother of monsters. It starts from the premise: what if the mother of monsters was in a queer relationship and had a fight? What if they bred all of these monsters to keep this relationship alive? It talks about queer futurity and an extended idea of queer ephemera and traces as essential to queer survival.