
On Rape and Institutional Failure
- Publisher
- Dewi Lewis Publishing
- Year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 978-1-911306-87-0
- Specifications
- Hardback
31.7 x 22.6 cm
228 pages
Book design by Laia Abril and Ramon Pez
Longlisted, Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award 2023
Laia Abril visualises the origin of gender-based stereotypes and myths, together with the failing structures of law and order that continue to perpetuate a culture of sexual violence. She collates and interweaves compiled testimonies, political proclamations, historical archives, popular and traditional beliefs, and the structural failures of society in dealing with sexual violence. To avoid feeding a systemic victim-blaming society, the visual narrative switches from the survivors to the bodies that should protect them, allowing her to address transgenerational trauma and social accountability. It is the second chapter of the long-term project A History of Misogyny, a visual research through historical and contemporary comparisons of the systemic control of women in the world.