440 Pairs of Women’s Shoes Mounted to Symbolize their Murders
In 2018 alone, 440 women were murdered as part of domestic or sexual violence in Turkey*. An artist, Vahit Tuna has mounted the same number of high heeled shoes on the sides of a busy Istanbul street building to symbolize the violence they faced.
When a person dies in Turkey, they have a tradition to place the shoes of that person outside an entrance. In accordance with that tradition, Turkish artist Vahit Tuna has set up this art installation over an area covering 260 square meters.
“We are standing in a street now and maybe people are faced with a work of art for the first time, an open and bleeding wound for the very first time. I believe this has an impact… I think this (installation) creates awareness and is something that influences people and makes them think,” said the artist, according to @Reuters.
Considering that 440 women lost their lives to the #TurkishFemicide, the rate of violence against women in that country is at about 1.2 female deaths per day. However, 49 women lost their lives in August 2019 alone, which raises the rate of violence for that month to 1.6!
Raise your voices in the fight against the #Femicide happening all over the world. We may have progressed over the past few centuries, but women are still being killed in the hundreds over simply not being born male.
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