Dressing for Structure (2022)

“We are instructed by corporate talking heads to lean into a capitalist society where power equals financial gain. This model works best for wealthy white women, who are able to replace men in a capital structure…Liberal feminism’s obsession with getting women to the top’ masks a desire to ensure that the current system and its violent consequences remain intact… A feminism that seeks power instead of questioning it does not care about justice.”  Lola Olufemi – Feminism Interrupted

Dressing for structure poses to challenge political and corporate structures, that appropriate feminism while perpetuating inequality. It explores how individuals within these structures navigate the political landscape through performance and dress, and how this undermines the efforts of intersectionality and leads to mistreatment of underserved communities.

These objects take reference from modern corporate workwear and modernist furniture from the beginning of the second wave of feminism in the 1960s. Exploring the discourse around the intersectionality of the feminist movement past and present, the commodification of feminism for political gain and power dressing.