Ruth O'Leary, Tracey Dress, 2016, cotton and felt garment.Photography by Fred Kroh. Fashion in galle
Ruth O'Leary, Tracey Dress, 2016, cotton and felt garment.Photography by Fred Kroh. Fashion in galleries and art as fashion Similarly, emerging artist Ruth O’Leary works across performance, video and painting, and creates clothes called Fuck Dresses that are a mobile artwork. “It’s obvious that people read and judge each other through their dress, but there is a fine line between looking and interrogating.” In covering a white debutant-type dress with the hand painted expletive, her body becomes a Kruger-esque billboard. O’Leary is calling out the double standard –“There’s pornography everywhere and yet it is still provocative for a woman to wear a dress covered in the word ‘fuck’.”I feel that their has been an excess of poorly executed attempts at subverting fashion and gazes for feminism in recent years [decade?] but do like the boldness as an Emin comment -- source link