Only Context Separates a Monster from a Woman
Abigail Black
Fashion Design (School of Art and Design)
About this Item
- Title
- Only Context Separates a Monster from a Woman
- Date
- 2024
- Summary/Artist's Statement
- A beautiful woman during the day, but an evil demon at night. Severing herself at the waist, she grows bat-like wings to hunt her next victim. The manananggal is a mythical creature from the Philippines. When the Spanish colonized the country, they used the lore to uphold their values, physically separating women from their reproductive organs and symbolically robbing them of power over their own body. This collection reframes and showcases the two stories of the manananggal—a devil and a woman.
- Course/Degree Information
- Program/Degree: Fashion Design BFA
- Concentration: Intimate Apparel
- Academic Semester: Spring 2024
- In Exhibition
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2024 Future of Fashion
- Rights
- In Copyright
- The copyright for this work is held by its author/creator(s). Usage of this material beyond what is permitted by copyright law must first be cleared with the rights-holder(s). This work has been made available online by the Fashion Institute of Technology Gladys Marcus Library strictly for research and educational purposes. If you are the copyright holder for this work and have any objections to this work being made available online, please notify us immediately at [email protected].
- Identifier
- FIT Repository ID: fof_2024_0060
Citation
Black, A. (2024). Only Context Separates a Monster from a Woman. FIT Institutional Repository. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/216382
Black, Abigail. Only Context Separates a Monster from a Woman. 2024. FIT Digital Repository, https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/216382
Black, Abigail. "Only Context Separates a Monster from a Woman." FIT Digital Repository, 2024. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/216382