Feminist Artist Embroidered Rap Lyrics Onto Lingerie To Start A Conversation
April 28, 2016 by admin
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Buckman grew up in a socialist, feminist household, listening to the lyrics of Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur, left to grapple with the implications of the artists’ occasionally misogynist lyrics. When she became a mother, Buckman realized instead of humming lullabies to her baby at night, she was reciting rap lyrics, and often rather explicit ones.
As the artist explained to The Creators Project, “When you’re cooing into your baby’s ear lyrics like, ‘Bitches I like them brainless, guns I like them stainless steel,’ it’s hard not to find issue with the messaging and want to use your artwork to explore this dialogue.”
She decided to channel this tension into her work, embroidering lyrics from the two rappers onto pieces of women’s lingerie, juxtaposing both empowering and chauvinist snippets to capture the wide and often muddled range of attitudes toward women represented in the music. The series is called “Every Curve.”
“It is important to me that people see that there are many empowering messages for women within this genre of music, but that some of the ideas of women are polarizing,” the artist explained to The Huffington Post. One lyric from Biggie reads: “I don’t give the bitch enough to ride the bus.” A Tupac quote reads: “I swear I’ll never call you bitch again.” And one more from Biggie’s “Big Booty Hoes”: “Ain’t that a slut, hell yeah, she even take it in the butt.”
