after much time, i have finally cleared out my reader backlog, and found some gems. my favorite is this art project out of Colombia, Argentina, and Chile. Called Lugar Común, the aim is to (according to Sociological Images's write-up) "disrupt our acceptance of established social hierarchies."
Though the women wear identical shirts and the viewer is not told which woman is which, I found myself guessing. And perhaps I am too confident, but I'm fairly certain I can tell which is which in the vast majority. And though the blonde fluffy hair or skin color differential in many cases is part of my assumption, I think more importantly, signs of physical aging are quite telling, belying the bodily impacts of relative impoverishment. and perhaps that is exactly what is (supposed to be) highlighted by this project. we see visual evidence of the way experience is accumulated on and in the body (see Harvey 1996).
