Section 6 | A Gender Perspective

Section 6 | A Gender Perspective

Feminist and postfeminist discourse and new gender narratives have also had an impact on design. Concerned and consumed by proposing solutions with a gender perspective, many women designers have decided to develop projects that make feminine sexuality visible from a formative and educational viewpoint, like Pussypedia and María Conejo’s illustrations. In turn, the creative duo Flaminguettes explores menstruation and the taboos surrounding it through a still life that —breaking the two-dimensional barrier— acknowledges and respects the complexity and uniqueness of the people who menstruates and their bodies.

Through contemporary sculptural jewelry, Paulina López attempts to raise awareness about feminicide and gender violence in Mexico; a collaborative piece that confronts the patriarchy, provokes reflection, demands justice and preserves collective memory.

In her clothing, María Ponce proposes not only to challenge the traditional norms of fashion, but also to blur old, preconceived expressions of gender and binarism. Barbará Sánchez Kane has opted for a hybrid practice—between fashion and art—that offers access to ideas of gender fluidity, understood as an artistic discipline as well as sexual expression.

Aurora Pellizzi resorts to activities and materials associated with femininity, like weaving and jerga (coarse cloth) —invisible stars in household care— to design pieces that could be interpreted as craft works, but that go back and forth between sculpture and tapestry, design and art.