| Summary: | Confronting male and female genders in contemporary art through the notion of reversal in a queer approach, has opened a field of investigation on their possible transgressive value, and confirmed the destabilization that the interplay between sameness and otherness operates, leaving open the question of identity beyond binary categories. We question transgender identity and the sublimated body around the queer issue of gender reversal and the role played by the hair in arousing aesthetic curiosity. To cross-dress by sticking hairs on one’s body (while not concealing the previous identity) or to engage in transgender mutations (in both a medical and aesthetic catharsis which questions the exhibition of hairs), blurs the codes and plays on the differences whose transgressive value we will try to identify in the works of Del LaGrace Volcano, Daniela Comani, Katarzyna Kozyra, Ana Mendieta and Cindy Sherman.
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