“We looked relatively sober and in control,” observes the photographer Sophy Rickett, characterising the protagonists in Pissing Women. Conceived in 1994 and first exhibited in 1995, the original triptych features young women rejecting the typical, after-dark-behind-a-car-squat. Instead they are standing, knees slightly bent, urinating on the architecture of corporate London.
“One of the things that felt transgressive was that we were wearing business attire,” she continues. “It wouldn’t have worked if we’d adopted the ‘ladette’ demeanour, that would have aligned too closely with a cultural meme already resisting gendered codes. My form of resistance was to appear outwardly part of the system, while doing this one thing differently.”
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