Trini, 2005 by Egyptian artist Ghada Amer is just one of many embroideries she makes that depict images of women in porn, directly challenging the notion of embroidery being a delicate, feminine craft.
“The virgin/whore paradigm is alive all around the world, she says, and particularly in the United States. There’s a certain wrangling of it here—women breaking away from their own objectification in what is arguably a very de Beauvoir-ian way; a reversal of what is considered the “male gaze.” In her paintings women lose themselves in pleasure and (in many cases) quite literally take control…”
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