Museo Travesti del Perú
Museo Travesti del Perú
The Museo Travesti del Perú is a sexual archive. “However, the documents comprising it are merely the means to explore the strategies of a transvestite body at once historical and current. Its dismantling, from exotic sex to political tool, goes through a process of gathering and cross-referencing this archive, towards its subsequent communication that will implement the mutant strategies of this memory, always in process.” The museum was conceived in 2003 and continues to be developed ideologically since then, questioning the museum and archive itself, it's contextual connections to colonialism, elitism, and exoticism. Ideally, the museum acts “as a space of empowerment and memory of transvestite people, but also a letting go beyond the need for a differential and safe space, towards a necessary deconstruction of bodies. A transvestite in the museum, not as a mark of identity, but as visibility of the constant metamorphosis of bodies and knowledge; as living culture.”