The work of Alícia Framis fluctuates through a very wide range of media and styles, from architecture, photography and video to performance and interventions in public space. What they all share is the artist’s commitment to social issues, such as gender discrimination, gender-based violence, the labour crisis and unemployment, the trade in children, racism, giving blood, etc. Alicia approaches these issues through poetic elements, which in no way dilute the force of the denunciation.
PARTICIPAtes in on the outside looking in with the work:
Tacones para hombres (Framis for Men)(2007 – 2009)
Tacones para hombres looks at the issue of gender. The work consists of actions generated through a pair of men’s shoes that have the shape and high heels of women’s shoes. A series of people will photograph themselves carrying out an action wearing these shoes. The action can be as simple as putting them on, a gesture which here entails crossing one of the boundaries through which society separates the genders.
Alícia Framis
(Barcelona, 1967)
The work of Alícia Framis fluctuates through a very wide range of media and styles, from architecture, photography and video to performance and interventions in public space. What they all share is the artist’s commitment to social issues, such as gender discrimination, gender-based violence, the labour crisis and unemployment, the trade in children, racism, giving blood, etc. Alicia approaches these issues through poetic elements, which in no way dilute the force of the denunciation.
PARTICIPAtes in on the outside looking in with the work:
Tacones para hombres (Framis for Men) (2007 – 2009)
Tacones para hombres looks at the issue of gender. The work consists of actions generated through a pair of men’s shoes that have the shape and high heels of women’s shoes. A series of people will photograph themselves carrying out an action wearing these shoes. The action can be as simple as putting them on, a gesture which here entails crossing one of the boundaries through which society separates the genders.