A similar dynamic, in which the museum is utilized by an artist as an instrument capable simultaneously of discipline, coerced revelation, and strategic opacity, is activated in Chris E. Vargas’s Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art (MOTHA), founded in 2013. Across his work,…
MOTHA was founded as a conceptual museum in 2013 to highlight trans art and history and engage critically with how transgender people are gaining entry into institutions that have historically excluded them. Initially I didn’t conceive of MOTHA as a real place because it didn’t seem possible to…
