OPENING 2 october IN SANTIAGO.
What happens when dissident bodies enter the Museum?
Nia de Indias invites us to move through heritage spaces through the insubordinate body of a drag guide who challenges the existence of counter-publics as non-normative social agencies. These bodies introduce practices and identities into the institution, representing and exchanging differentiated, dynamic, and fluid cultural repertoires.
Nia de Indias invites us to move through heritage spaces through the insubordinate body of a drag guide who challenges the existence of counter-publics as non-normative social agencies. These bodies introduce practices and identities into the institution, representing and exchanging differentiated, dynamic, and fluid cultural repertoires.
Through this gesture, Nia Goes to the Museum highlights that the very notion of the public is also fiction. Homogenizing mobile and nomadic experiences strains the Museum's space through regulatory systems, acting as fields of permanent conflict and sites of ongoing tension. The Museum is a contested space-a territory of debate. Nia re-signifies, cross-dresses, and subverts it. She brings forth the undomesticated body, the biographical approach, the emotionality of public life, and the disruptive emergence of new ways to experience the body within the Museum itself.
Gloria Cortés Aliaga, Curator
Santiago, Sept 2024
