SHIT
In this work, during the EMPU exhibition at Balai Budaya Yogyakarta, Bibiana invites the audience to walk and step on the letters that spell the words SHIT and TAHI scattered on the floor of the exhibition space. Through this activity, visitors can experience: deliberate act of stepping on (act of mistreating a woman), feelings of not wanting to be trampled or to trample, and physically see the result of verbal and emotional abuse – broken letters (the resulting fragile women).
The woman who has constantly experienced verbal and emotional abuse will eventually feel like the spelled letters/words. The woman will lose her confidence if she continues to experience this abuse, and eventually become crushed and vulnerable and lose her dignity even though a woman is a strong figure by nature.
In this work, during the EMPU exhibition at Balai Budaya Yogyakarta, Bibiana invites the audience to walk and step on the letters that spell the words SHIT and TAHI scattered on the floor of the exhibition space. Through this activity, visitors can experience: deliberate act of stepping on (act of mistreating a woman), feelings of not wanting to be trampled or to trample, and physically see the result of verbal and emotional abuse – broken letters (the resulting fragile women).
The woman who has constantly experienced verbal and emotional abuse will eventually feel like the spelled letters/words. The woman will lose her confidence if she continues to experience this abuse, and eventually become crushed and vulnerable and lose her dignity even though a woman is a strong figure by nature.
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