Description provided by artist: .I wrote this text last year, after the gender analysis task carried out within Suzanne's workshop. When thinking about an object related with the idea of 'embodied discomfort', it came back to me because my starting point was the fact that I can't see well without glasses. Besides, many times in my life I have felt uncomfortable in connection with seeing, not so much because of my lack of a perfect sight, but due to the violence of the objectifying gaze. In my text, I combine this 'not being able to see well' with personal experiences traversed by gender mandates and theoretical reflections on feminist theory and the gaze. To approach equality differently, we need to think and see differently: maybe we have to look at the world through a pair of purple glasses.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
A corkboard with 12 DVD's pasted on it upside down to diffract light. All of the DVD's are provided with quotes from the interviews between the artist and filmmakers as part of her research. All of these quotes are insights related with equality and difference.. .The second object is a mirror with a quote in which Haraway states the differences between two optical metaphors: diffraction and reflection. . .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/