2 whores for the price of 1

This piece is part of a series where I reflect on gender violence and women's identity, called "Useless tactics of female empowerment" (Tacticas inutiles de empoderamiento femenino). I use real fabrics from clothing, buttons, and other materials as metaphors of what women cover or discover when choosing how to dress every day. The colors and textures represent the many personalities that we have. However, the harassment lived daily in the streets in form of catcalling, can determine the way women dress. I present with this piece an alternative, an armor to be protected from this violence. The names of each piece comes from real catcalling collected from a survey I did in 2016.

This armor was made digitally with images taken from the internet. The 60 pieces of clothings are layers all put together one on top of the other, and come from India, Africa, Europe, South America fashion. The armor is shown fragmented in half, the way violence affects women every day. This piece focuses more on the formal aspect of the painting and the patterns of the multiple dresses used.