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Photo by Nicole Marnati
Graduation project

Purity is Temporary

Ola Korbańska

"Dirt is captured and exposed to convey a message."

WHAT A series of banners made of dirty cleaning rags as a protest in support of women’s rights, showing empowering statements that have escaped from the dirt. WHY Inspired by the Black Protest in Poland, Ola Korbanska embraced the cliché that cleaning is a women’s job to make her point. By taking their undervalued chores out of the house and into the open, she publicly questions the suppressed position of women worldwide. HOW By ostentatiously scrubbing significant public places — a church, a governmental building, a square or a statue — she gave the act of cleaning a special significance. As the cloth soaks up the dirt, the taped off letters acquire meaning and form a clear message: ‘no woman no kraj’, meaning: no woman, no country.

Department

Contextual Design

Degree

Master

Graduation year

2018

Photoshoot

Nicole Marnati