Intervention on the personal library of the Colombian conservative politician Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, located in the foundation that carries his name. As part of the Queer Archive Institute’s exhibition in Bogota, Colombia, this piece is the culmination of a research that began with Baño Turco, assembling all the queer references that had an impact during our teenage years. It works as both a subjective constellation of icons and as an example of the multiple, sometimes dissimilar, influences that gay culture clusters in Latin America.
Esta intervención en la Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño hizo parte de la exposición del Queer Archive Institute en Bogotá, Colombia. Universum Corruptorem es una pieza que culmina una investigación sobre los referentes que han influenciado a El Corruptor, y que inició con Baño Turco. Su intención es mostrar lo variado y contradictorio que pueden ser los referentes que se reúnen bajo la capa de la cultura gay latina.
Date: 2017
Photographs by Andrés Camilo Gómez