VOTE 10/10 (Red)

Michele Pred transforms vintage handbags from the 1950’s or 60’s into walking billboards for political action. She choses purses as a canvas as a way to marry the politically-charged messages of the Pro-Choice movement with representations of women’s modern economic power and the possibilities for change that come with it. For the artist, the use of purses from the mid-twentieth century is a reminder of the women's liberation movements of that period. Significantly, they ask the viewer to measure how much has changed this since then, and what remains unchanged. The text on each purse is created using Electroluminescent wire that is lit up using batteries.