The artist who created the REDress project is asking people to wear a red dress, or hang one in a public space, on October 4, the day to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada.
Jaime Black, a multidisciplinary artist based in Winnipeg, told Metro News she created the REDress project five years ago to showcase the issue of missing and murdered women in an artistic way.
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REDress is an installation project collecting red dresses by community donation that are installed in public spaces in Winnipeg and across Canada as, according to Black’s website, “a visual reminder of the staggering number of women who are no longer with us.”
Each dress is “symbolic of the violence faced by indigenous women but is also a symbol of the power of a community coming together to fight this violence,” Black said earlier this week.
It’s art, but also educational. Despite greater awareness about violence, abuse and sexism that affect Indigenous women, there are still plenty of Canadians who are shocked to know women go missing daily.
To find out more about the project, visit www.redressproject.org.
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