Patriarchat mit Todesfolge installation and publication

Designed by Louisa Victoria Clever for her Master thesis at HfK Bremen, Patriarchat mit Todesfolge (“Patriarchy with fatal consequences”) aims at interrogating on gender-based violence worldwide. The project includes an installation (230×120 cm) and a publication (40×57,4 cm). From Clever’s Instagram post (translated):

Gender-based violence is one of the most common human rights violations worldwide and the numbers continue to rise. We should move away from the idea that the obvious is enough to overcome patriarchy. The patriarchal structures are deeply rooted everywhere in our system. They are in business, politics, family life and our legal system. These structures provide the breeding ground for the highest level of patriarchal violence: femicide. Hardly discussed or ignored by the system for years, the numbers are still enormously high today. We have to work together to overcome this system and one step among many is thematic discussion. In order to be able to remedy the grievances, we need to know where they come from and where they reach. This is exactly where we have to start and change the system from the ground up so that all people in a society can live equally and self-determinedly.

Set in Fabio XM by Giulia Boggio.