Collage from newspaper cuttings from 2017 and 2018 about women in sport.. .Description provided by the artist: 'Women are participating in sport. This is a historical conquest as women have not been always allowed to participate in sport. Nevertheless, the increasingly current participation of women has not implied the transformation of sport as a male dominated sphere. Moreover, as a mean to ensure the dominion of men and patriarchal structures in sport, the presence of women, despite the lower in comparison to men - especially at the competitive level-, has been used to proclaim, that equality has already been achieved: in this way, any transformation seems to be needed. In this context, it is important to say not only that sport remains as a male sphere, but also that the presence of women remains precarious and that equality has not been achieved.'. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
Description provided by the artist: 'The pH Gender Scale measures how gendered a social structure or a cultural production is. The more it tends to the acid, the more gendered the sample is. Taking as sample the Ideological State Apparatuses and the Repressive State Apparatus suggested by Althusser, the French Marxist philosopher, as well as his .essay 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)', .(1970), the pH Gender Scale depicts how highly gendered they are. Through this illustration, it is communicated the fallacy of the gender neutrality of the .social reality.'. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/