No Woman is Born to Be a Whore

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No Woman is Born to Be a Whore ARGENTINA: Women Air Society's Dirty Laundry in Art Exhibit by Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, May 25 (IPS) -- A group of female prostitutes in Buenos Aires is using art to lay bare their situation -- that is, the state and societal abuse they endure -- to the public. One part of the installation features a bed smothered with photos of a female corpse; "I used to be beautiful" is scrawled in Spanish across the images. Others depict women with their eyes and mouths covered with condoms, their heads in a box of food, or definitions and comments written on sheets and pillows. "A red-light district is a zone of sexual exploitation, where boundaries are defined by political and police corruption," reads one of the phrases. Another: "I ask the State: Why don't I have a job? Why don't I have an education? Why am I not free to make decisions about my own body?" dalje B92 Blog

ARGENTINA: Women Air Society's Dirty Laundry in Art Exhibit

by Marcela Valente

BUENOS AIRES, May 25 (IPS) -- A group of female prostitutes

in Buenos Aires is using art to lay bare their situation --

that is, the state and societal abuse they endure -- to the

public.

One part of the installation features a bed smothered with

photos of a female corpse; "I used to be beautiful" is

scrawled in Spanish across the images. Others depict women

with their eyes and mouths covered with condoms, their heads

in a box of food, or definitions and comments written on

sheets and pillows.

"A red-light district is a zone of sexual exploitation,

where boundaries are defined by political and police

corruption," reads one of the phrases. Another: "I ask the

State: Why don't I have a job? Why don't I have an

education? Why am I not free to make decisions about my own

body?"

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B92 Blog

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