Is an artistic research project that examines how beauty and strength shaped national ideals in Venezuela during the second half of the twentieth century. These ideals operate as forms of symbolic and corrective violence that regulate bodies and desire.
This cisheteronationalist narrative naturalizes these qualities as part of a “national genetics,” where the beauty queen and the soldier emerge as aspirational figures: trained bodies, uniforms, parades, and disciplinary codes that function as aesthetics of control.
Through the review and intervention of press and television archives, the reinterpretation of political propaganda, and the production of queer staged photographs, the project confronts these imaginaries and visual regimes, exposing how dissident bodies remain systematically persecuted.
