Sarah Maple and the constant fear of violence

Sarah Maple wearing the Anti-Rape Cloak. Photo courtesy Sarah Maple.
Sarah Maple wearing the Anti-Rape Cloak. Photo courtesy Sarah Maple.

British artist Sarah Maple’s paintings, photographs, performances, mixed media, and video works tackle ideas of identity, whether of the religious, sexual, or gender variety.

Her “Anti-Rape Cloak” gained her some notoriety last year, a work she created during a residency with the “elusive network of militant feminist art activists” The Sisters of Perpetual Resistance. The residency called for an “object of nuisance,” so she created the shapeless cloak and had herself photographed wearing it in settings like the desert, the New York subway, a child-like bedroom, a parking garage, and a playground–illustrating the constant fear of violence women can face in even seemingly-innocent spaces. (source: Perspective on femininity today by Alyssa Buffenstein)


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