WARDROBE PROJECT 2011-2013
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This space is different – you don’t tell us what to do or ask us why we are doing it. - A member of the art group The Wardrobe Project was an arts-based project that was organised and run at a shelter for abused and/or homeless women in Johannesburg. One morning a week for twelve months women and their children came to a small art room situated on the third floor of a shelter to experiment with materials and tell stories through art work. What was important about these stories was that they were on the women’s own terms and ‘told’ at their own pace. This project powerfully countered the idea that in order to work towards healing one needs to reveal and talk about everything from the past. The workshops were a reflection process where participants could connect fragments: of the past, present and future. Many of these fragments were painful, some were fantasy, and most did do not want to be vocalised, or had no way of being expressed in words.
1. A project art-dress made by a workshop participant. 2. A project art-dress made by a workshop participant.