BARBIE IN A BURQA x 100
What do these images say to you?
German artist Sabine Reyer has created an art installation at the Ruhr-Biennale in Dortmund featuring 100 Barbie dolls dressed in burqa.
It’s a fascinating juxtaposition of the great breadth of feminine experience on this planet – the impossible Western female body image standard covered by the extreme Islamic symbol of modesty.
Your thoughts?
* Last week we had a great story by writer Zohra Aly, My Hijab, My Moral Compass, about how wearing a hijab fits into Western culture.
4 Responses to this article
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Eat, drink and be Kerry October 9, 2012
How can anyone look at these images and not see oppressed women? And all in the name of religion.
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Cybele @ BlahBlah Magazine October 9, 2012
I found it fascinating listening to Richard Glover interview Salman Rushdie yesterday and how Salman said that this militant and strict form of Islam has arisen fairly recently, within the last 50 years, which makes me wonder about where all these rules came from.
it’s worth a listen: http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2012/10/08/3606247.htm -
JessB October 9, 2012
How cool! It really makes you notice the teeny differences in their eyes (colour, eyebrows, etc).
I like it! I’d go and see this, if it was on here.
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Ro.Watson October 9, 2012
Burquas are us as some long ago cartoon featuring Amanda Vandstone~ play on. Love the artist’s challenge. Good work to make us think/feel differently…..
