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Item: Ladies & Gentlemen

Antoni Muntadas

2001

Book, 15,5 x 10, 5 cm.
Materials: Paper

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. B 2024/718).

In our society, we are used to watch signs everywhere at every moment, so much that we take them for granted. "Ladies and gentlement" is an album with pictures taken of women and men toilet signals all over the world by Antonio Muntadas.

Signs in different languages, with different graphics or with different colours. During a long period of time Muntadas has been photographing images that identify public spaces which became in private because of their use and function. Symbols that refer to a universally accepted gender division (male-female distinction). Concepts that are part of an artificial construction deriveted from biological sex differences (male and female).

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