Lechedevirgen

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    Lechedevirgen

    Lechedevirgen (they, them) racialized trans non-binary “travesti /xochihua” artist who creates from an anti-patriarchal, anti-colonial and anti-racist political perspective. Born in 1991 at the Purépecha semi-desert of K’erendarhu in the mesomerican territory of Abya Yala, formally known as the City of Querétaro, Mexico, one of the focal points of extremist conservatism and the Mexican capital of catholic exorcisms. They are part of a genealogy of transvestite artist/activist/shamans, conceiving their artistic work as the creation of acts of disobedience and symbolic revenges, combining performance art, critical writing, photography, video, Latin- American witchcraft and expanded transvestism. As a sexual dissident representative of the Mexican underground counterculture and pioneer of post-pornography, they are known for the invention of "Heterosexual Deconversion Therapies" (performance project against conversion therapy and LGBTQphobia) and for creating the concepts of "Coloniality of Art" and "Spiritual Transvestism". Is the author of "Deshacer el Arte” (“Unmaking the Arts”, OnA Editions, 2025), "Pensamiento Puñal" (Dagger thought”, Dos Filos, 2022) and the political statement "I Don't Feel Pride, I Feel Rage" a critique about the hate crimes in contrast to pinkwashing and assimilationist neoliberal white gay pride.

    As one of the current figures from the sexual dissidence who have transform the cultural panorama in Mexico their impact has open museums and institutional art spaces to subaltern groups such as trans women, queer communities and sex workers, through disrupting performances, curatorial practices, cultural activism and denouncing acts of discrimination. Due to their activism, the National Museum of Art MUNAL made a public apology to the artist after they suffer transphobic discrimination inside this museum, this was a historical and crucial milestone to the arts and culture as a turning point in the arts structural/institutional transformations in Mexico.

    They have presented performances and exhibitions, collaborating as artist/curator in Colombia, Canada, Mexico, the United States and Europe, working with the National Museum of Art MUNAL, Museum of Modern Art, Los Pinos Cultural Center, Museo Cabañas, Centro Cultural del Bosque (CCB) by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura INBAL (National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature), Ex-Teresa Arte Actual Museum and the Museum of Transfeminine Art at Mexico, Museum of Contemporary Art in Colombia, SBC Galerie d’art and Eastern Bloc in Montreal, Canada, Live Art Development Agency LADA (UK), Museum of Human Achievement MoHa (Austin, Texas, USA), Human Resources (LA, California, USA), Antic Teatre (Barcelona, Spain), La Neomudejárr Museum (Madrid, Spain), Transpalette Centre d'Art Contemporain (Bourges, France) and Beursschouwburg Theatre (Belgium), performing in festivals as Hemispheric Performance and Politics “Encuentro”, Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival or OUTsider Queer Transmedia Festival. Their activism has been in favor of the liberation of the Palestinian people, the rights of the trans community and organ culture.

    They had shared line-up with LGBTQ+ artists as Arca, Tokischa and Sophie Xeon, and collaborated in performance art projects with Dorian Wood, Lukas Avendaño, Guillermo Gomez- Peña, Ron Athey, among others.

    Website https://www.lechedevirgen.com/