Portfolio Archives: Gender

She (hiya) in Arabic Caligraphy

Gustav Courbet created his famous painting L’Origine du monde in 1866, which can be considered as a feminist artwork. Using this image on verses mentioning women, from the holy books (Bible, New Testament, and Koran) gives it a unique power.

Needles are placed inside high heel red shoes insipid by the work of the Mexican artist Elina Chauvet as a protest against women that were killed due to gender abuse.

As Berger comments in his book Ways of Seeing about hidden ideologies in visual images (from the point of view of western aesthetics), men tend to look at women as an object which are not allowed to think for themselves; they are constantly under the judgment of men.

As Berger comments in his book Ways of Seeing about hidden ideologies in visual images (from the point of view of western aesthetics), men tend to look at women as an object which are not allowed to think for themselves; they are constantly under the judgment of men.

This project aims to focus on the abuse of power and violence against women, not only on a socio-cultural level, but also on religious-political.

Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being. (De Beauvoir, 2011: 502)