El Insulto

El Insulto is an art platform dedicated to the recovery, conservation and promotion of an archive on sexual culture in Mexico. The archive is a place where one can go to encounter the erotic past and reactivate emotional and political relationships with artifacts. El Insulto seeks to share these materials and create communities around them. Archivo El Insulto focuses its collection on printed material from the twentieth century within Mexican circulation. It currently holds approximately publications –books, magazines, and other ephemera–, 500 photographs and postcards, a dozen three-dimensional objects, and it continues to grow. Through the recovery and conservation of these artifaclts, El Insulto aims to foster a recognition of historical sexual culture and its relevance to contemporary sexuality.