EXHIBITIONIST
Category: Accessories
Competitions: International
The collection is an exploration of the paradoxical, amorphous nature of the female form. Under our patriarchal society, the female body becomes a political pawn-its form morphed, battered, and violated, to fit the narrative of patriarchy at every particular moment in time. As a result women's bodies are objectified, whether they are sexualised, deified, or maternalised. But always, a possession. Historically, men have dictated the way women's bodies are exposed or hidden. It is violently exposed to cater to the salivating, heterosexual, male gaze, or it is deified, turned into nothing but a vessel of fertility, stripped of any individual desire existing outside of motherhood. In both cases, women are robbed of their basic humanity. My bag aims to combat this binary and depict women divorced from male expectations; existing in a state of multiplicity. The form is inspired by ancient fertility goddesses/maternal figures. But, at the same time, the woman is also proudly exhibiting her sexuality by wearing a provocative outfit. She is exerting her agency, even though this might get her labelled as an exhibitionist, attention-whore, or pick-me.
