Venezuela is a factory of beautiful women and military men. There is an aspiration to achieve that enigmatic beauty of a miss or to obtain that unbreakable strength of a military man. Both archetypes share visions and languages. In these relationships there is a transversal component: binary violence. This national genetics proposes performative coincidences: uniformed bodies, parades, distinctive sashes.

To become a Miss or a milico, the body must undergo training. These identities are shaped by an aesthetic tyranny, a regime of the body that ideologically constructs the defenders of the nation. A country dominated by beauty pageants and the omnipresence of the armed forces.

 

Beyond the barracks and operating rooms, multiple horizons remind us that Venezuela is more than beauty and strength.

It is an anesthetized, intervened, and violated nation.

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Between symbols and national metaphors I make a queer catwalk to visit the past and understand

the binary violence that operates from the archetypes of the Miss and the Military in Venezuelan society.​​