As transsexuals live? The exhibition at DOX playing with prejudices and traumas
Posted 18 August 2012
Last update: 18 August 2012 10:55
by Magdalena Čechlovskáredaktorka, Editor

Original article (Czech): http://art.ihned.cz/umeni-a-design/c1-57073470-transgender-me
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The visitor to the 'Transgender Me' exhibition at Prague's DOX gallery may feel like a childless person at a party who accidentally finds himself in the middle of a candid conversation about parenting by parents.

The typical visitor has no doubt about their gender and accepts all the roles that go with that gender more or less without grumbling. They have a social conscience or wouldn't be attending a transsexual art exhibit. What they may not expect is this new feeling, of being in the minority.

One may not be sure how to address the curator Michelle Simla, who speaks in a masculine voice: "This isn't about the medical definition of transgender, but about the dimension of life and lifestyle," explains Michelle Simla,who prepared the show with Lukáš Houdek.


Photographer Jožo Rabara recalls his childhood when his mother threaded flowers into the dress. Photo: DOX