The Earthly Venus is a multi-piece project that engages with questions of women’s representation in the context of colonisation as well as consumerism and capitalism.
In the form of an essay it enquires about the origin of inaccurate representations of women’s characters, and their use as a tool in colonisation in order to control their agency, ultimately to establish power over them in the social, religious and political sphere.
The practical work consists of clothing pieces in which prints have been used to protest ubiquitous western standards of beauty and epistemologies that have been imposed onto colonised people in the global south, and in the region of Abya Yala (so-called South America).
Michelle Leaño-Escobar
BA Graphic Design, Camberwell College of Arts, ual
2021 London, UK
