The sculpture by Gaetano Pesce was unveiled Sunday in Milan's Piazza del Duomo for Milan's furniture fair this week.
An installation by designer Gaetano Pesce 'Maesta' Sofferente' is shown in front of the Duomo gothic cathedral on the occasion of the Milan Furniture fair, in Milan, Italy, Sunday, April 7, 2019. By Isaac Stanley-Becker Isaac Stanley-Becker Reporter based in the U.K. Email Bio Follow April 11 at 6:02 AM A sculpture has risen in central Milan — an armchair stylized as a female torso, pocked with arrows and under attack by wild animals. It sits inert, chained to a spherical ottoman.
Rather than challenging sexist tropes, critics claim, it stands as a monument to patriarchy and violence, representing women as helpless victims. “The woman for the umpteenth time is represented as a helpless body and victim, without ever calling into question the agent of violence,” the activist group wrote on Facebook.
Italy has been slow to transform legal codes that placed women in positions of subordination. It wasn’t until 1981 that it repealed a statute making it possible for men to elude charges of sex crimes by marrying their victims.
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