Lobe with Peligro: Mostrx by Feli Quispe is part of a larger installation project in which Ad Minoliti reshuffles and reinterprets Charles Perrault’s popular tale, “Little Red Riding Hood.” In this work, the artist critically engages with the symbolism in children’s literature to open up a dialogue on how it ties into our understanding of gender and fashions our identities within a binary system. Minoliti replaces Perrault’s wolf with an animaloid figure dressed in an elaborate outfit designed by Feli Quispe, which features Minoliti’s distinctive palette of blue, red, yellow, and green. Neither aggressive nor dangerous, Minoliti’s furry creature breaks with the admonitory and moralistic qualities of traditional tales used to enforce societal norms. In addition, as suggested by the non-gendered terminations used in the title (“lobe” and “Mostrx”) and the anthropomorphic attitude of the figure, Lobe personifies the artist’s non-binary, anti-speciesist heterotopias. With a childlike openness, Minoliti’s work imagines new possibilities beyond the confines of traditional and normative fairy tales.

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Practice:
• Minoliti’s multivalent practice draws from the visual languages of modernist forms, popular culture and geometric architectural representation.
• It encompasses painting, print, and sculpture, and demonstrates sustained focus on eroticism, gender expression, and techno futurism.
• This emphasis, expressed in the intricate scenes and characters staged by Minoliti, imagines utopic transhuman and genderqueer futures while maintaining and insisting on the universality of our shared humanity.

Description:
• This sculpture was part of the immersive installation “Furry Tales” presented at La Casa Encendida in Madrid last winter (Jan.–March 2022), a fictional space where Minoliti reshuffled and reinterpreted Charles Perrault’s popular tale of “Little Red Riding Hood”.
• Minoliti explores how, through symbolic strategies, children’s tales shape, mould our identities within a binary system.
• In that renewed tale, Lobe replaces the wolf of Perrault’s tale. This animaloid figure is neither aggressive nor dangerous. In Minoliti’s version of the tale, CAP (a non-binary person) stands for Little Red Riding Hood, and the forest CAP and Lobe stroll through becomes a realm devoid of imposed morals and prejudices > this reinterpretation of the tale breaks with the disciplinary and moralistic qualities of traditional tales used to enforce the patriarchal order and system.
• Childhood is the starting point of either identity assignment (in our current society) or self-determination (in Minoliti’s utopia) > Minoliti depoliticizes childhood – or more precisely, they reveal how childhood as we know/experience it is deeply political, behind the smokescreen of “innocence” (according to Minoliti, the idea of innocence is used to deny minors their autonomy).
• In popular culture, furries are known as trans-species creature – looking like animals but endowed with human capabilities of action and thinking. This also echoes Minoliti’s antispecism.
• Lobe’s costume was designed by Feli Quispe and pays homage to trans artist Susy Shock > CAP’s costume is embroided with Shock’s quote: “reinvidico mi derecho a ser un monstruo” [I claim my right to be a monster] — this quote is called to mind by the title of this artwork referring to “Mostrx”