THE HUFFINGTON POST
By Priscilla Frank
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| Photo by Doug Schwab |
ITALY---"Shrine for Girls," Cronin's upcoming site-specific installation appears at the 16th century Chiesa di San Gallo, part of the
Venice Biennale, starting on May 9. Initially, the piece simply resembles a colorful pile of clothing; garments worn throughout the world. However, the solemn and jarring piece actually honors the young women from around the world whose lives were unjustly cut short. [
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| Patricia Cronin, Shrine for Girls, Venice, La Biennale di Venezia - 56th International Art Exhibition
'Saris', 2015, Installation View |
The work addresses three horrific atrocities that plagued girls around the time of the piece's inception:
- the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria;
- the two teens gang raped, murdered and hung from trees in India; and
- the young women forced into labor at the Magdalene asylums and laundries in Ireland.
