Travestishow

Transvestite Show represents Klodová’s attempt to fuse an entire family into a single figure. In this performance, the artist dressed up as a man but functioned as a woman breastfeeding her baby.

Klodová has long dealt with relationships, their forms and changes. In her performance work Travestishow (2001) she looked at the combination of the female and male element in a single person. Dressed in male clothing she underlines this performance of masculinity by opting for a stereotypically macho character. Dressed as Desperado she pushes a pram while breastfeeding her baby, complicating and undermining the traditional male form, dissolving the boundary between female and male identity and the performance thereof, and problematising the traditional gender roles of the family.