Local Project presents:

Clothing, Naming & Performance

Heriberto Garcia Martinez

Clothing, naming & performance portrays two big subjects: on the one hand the beauty and feminine aesthetic ideals and also portrays transexuality and the transvestite. The exhibition analyzes how these people perform materially and symbolically in a very specific way to reflect their idea of femeninity and the beauty.

The clothing is an element that inevitably stands out when speaking of the transvestite as a societal figure. The transvestite follows a  ritual of clothing, naming & performance, because it is clothing that highlights their identity through costume, and appearance.

The transvestite arises, like a metaphor of the hybrid generic and thoughtful. His overacting masks it but at the same time exposes his predominant intentions of transgressing. The transvestite shows the burlesque side of a bourgeois model that defines a woman by assigned traits like discretion and measurement. This exhibition seeks to understand through a visual journey of images the need for the transvestite's need to provoke, to be irreverent, to appeal,seduce and transgress the models of society.

Local Project
45-10 Davis Street
Long Island City, New York 11101
http://www.localproject.org/