ASHLIN McANDREW STUDIO
Hangers
2017
“Hangers” takes a critical perspective on the society that romanticizes female figures in mass media, fashion ads, and Hollywood cinema—the same society that prioritizes patriarchy over a woman’s right to her own body. By re-contextualizing found footage and manipulating commercial items, “Hangers” explores issues surrounding consumer culture, conventional standards of beauty, class, desire, and societal expectations.
Hangers play a critical role in the fashion industry and unsafe abortion — symbolizing the lack of autonomy women have in all aspects of life. Behind the memorizing surface of the ideal woman depicted in fashion ads and Hollywood cinema, lies the twisted reality of womanhood: that annually, 22 million women worldwide endure an unsafe abortion.