It is an ancestral gesture, the delicate movement of the needle which circulates, coils, threads. The concentration of the seamstress at work.
Installed in the window of a busy street, at the interface of public and private spaces, Renata Andrade denounces violence against women by weaving on her own skin the degrading speeches suffered by women on a daily basis. Whether in the street or in the privacy of their homes, women, from an early age, are the target of sexist remarks that print themselves on their skin and mark them with a hot iron. In the window of this former fine lingerie store, the artist also highlights the link between the objectification of women's bodies, commonly used as a promotional tool, and its consequences in terms of social violence.