How does Patricia Cronin's Shrine for Girls participate in social and political activism?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. In Shrine for Girls, which was installed at the sixteenth-century Church of San Gallo in Venice, Cronin placed on the chapel's three marble altars photographs of young girls placed next to mounds of clothing to suggest relics of religious martyrs.
2. The "monuments" reference recent incidents that demonstrate violence against women around the world.
3. Brilliantly colored saris on the central altar relate to a 2014 gang-rape and murder of two Indian teenagers, Muslim hijabs sit on the altar to the left to represent the 276 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped in 2014 by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria, and the altar on the right displays uniforms like those worn by women incarcerated and forced to work in Magdalene asylums across Europe and the United States in eighteenth to late twentieth century.
4. Cronin's installation exploits the aesthetic contrast between the rich colorful fabrics and the stone architecture to contribute visual impact and iconographic meaning, and the photographs give a human face to a problem that, when generalized, seems far removed from the viewer's own experience.
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