2020 Galleries

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Galleries // 2020 Spark:Fall/Winter Student // The Pond: My Female Utopia

The Pond: My Female Utopia

Finalist

Competition: Spark:Fall/Winter Student
Designer: Dansiyu Zhu - Ms
Design Type: Graphics: Print
Company / Organization / School: Royal College of Art
Website: https://www.zhudansiyu.com/
Team Members: Dansiyu Zhu

Being both a female and a citizen prompts me to explore inwardly to reveal the native identity of my background, my cross-cultural education and my ideology of gender. This project relates to female protest and anti-gaze, and responding to the injustice faced by women today, as well as their specific difficulties in the marriage system. This is developed from the variety within my identity. Currently the law does not permit homosexual marriage in my motherland, and in recent years it has strictly restricted publications including queer content and tried to marginalize these voices. So my consideration is to clearly communicate my views on feminism and make it available to wider audiences. Because I don’t want us to be domesticated by the silence. Even more terrifying is, I worry that we are forced to be silent by our fear of the silence, and eventually become a part of the silence.