“What are you going to wear tonight?” is, surely, one of the most asked questions every Friday in conversations among friends, as part of the preparation ritual for the weekend’s plans. Of course, at that moment, no one is expecting that, hours later, it could end up turning into a condemning question: “What were you wearing?”
In the case of the exhibit, the term related to rape culture, the re-victimization of women victims of sexual violence, and the serious etceteras that the exhibition sought to dismantle through the stories of eight women. “If we are making an exhibition to break patterns, we needed a re-educated look at sexual violence,” she explains. Moreover, she points out that it would not have been therapeutic to “recreate the pain, the blood, and the harshness,” since it does not allow for recovery.The garments of the “seamstresses,” as they were defined in the panels that were exhibited, are “woven together with the details of what they lived through.
The texts have also not contributed to the spectacle mentioned by sociologist and social worker Cristina Mateos: “People might think that they were going to hear how many times they have been assaulted or the damages they have suffered. But that would not have been ethical or instructive either. It was not our goal and could perpetuate violence against women.
Above all, the goal was “to create an exhibition that looked after the victims, taking care of the stories, without making pornography of violence or rape. To relate the cases in order to raise awareness but without being sensationalist.” “It was necessary to describe the social, political, and cultural framework and the media that were using to portray the stories far from the truth of the women who suffer the aggressions, which start from the patriarchal and rape culture that protects the aggressors,” says Mateos. She shares that the aforementioned sculpture allowed them to follow the common thread of patterning that structures the exhibition.
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