Alicia Framis (1967)
anti_dog, 2002
DVD
running time: 9 min. 51 sec.
copyrights reserved
Loan
exhibition: Our kind of people: Many objects of Dutch Corporate Art Collections
21 May - 25 July 2010
Virtueel Museum Zuidas, KunstKapel
Prinses Irenestraat 19, Amsterdam
www.virtueel-museum.nl
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Alicia Framis does not shy away from experimentation, and is also no stranger to working on a larger scale, as with anti_dog (2002). Upon learning that in Berlin, ethnic women were being harassed by skinheads with aggressive dogs, the artist launched a counter-offensive. The artist was convinced that beauty and intimacy can offer people a feeling of safety. 'You don't create safety by setting up a video camera, but by feeling that you are the owner of your body and mind,' says Framis. The artist designed a clothing line made of bulletproof, fireproof and dog-resistant material, and dressed ethnic women in these outfits. Under the motto 'Beauty beats violence,' she then filmed her models walking among football supporters and prisoners in the urban jungles of cities like Paris, Birmingham, Antwerp, Barcelona and Amsterdam.
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