For her!
“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The invisibility of women has a long history. It takes place both in society and in history. This invisibility manifests itself in a multitude of areas, in history, but also in current society. Just think of all those products made with men in mind (like mobile phones or medicines) or the unequal pay between women and men.
The project aims to make women and their qualities more visible by developing a series of enlarged textile shapes. I derived these forms from the profiles of a number of ‘forgotten’ women from history.
Why textiles? Clothing is a product by excellence that represents women’s struggle for equality and independence in different ways.
The shapes are organic and relate to the different forms of being ‘invisible’: not being seen, not being heard and not being given the confidence to do something. They are feminine in shape and soft, but at the same time they express an urgency.
