Service 

etymology:  from French. service (St. French service) “service; service, service”, further from Lat. servitium “slavery, bondage”, further from servus “servile; slave, slave; servant”  

Once, from a man I knew, I heard the phrase “you will pay in kind!” addressed to me, it sounded in the context of “you will thank you for the service with your body.” At this moment I experienced a feeling of disgust and resentment. Next, I began to think about the similar attitude of men towards women, asking my friends how they would react to similar phrases and whether they had similar experiences. It turns out that all my friends with whom I exchanged experiences were in such situations that she (the woman) was not perceived as a person, but was treated as a sexual object. Several acquaintances told me their stories from their lives, which I interpret in this project. 

In the modern world, everything has a name and a name for the phenomenon that I am considering — sexual objectification. Feminists have been broadcasting this for a long time, but I, who am not a feminist, believe that this is one of the problems of modern gender relations.  

Psychologists believe that sexual objectification can lead to negative psychological consequences, including despair, depression and decreased self-esteem in women. The advertising business and mass media use the image of a sexy woman to promote goods and services, while, I believe, systematically implanting in the heads of young girls and women that it is enough to only be beautiful and sexy.  

In my “Service” project, I create with my own hands objects that we often use in life — mugs and plates. Thus, I want to show that in life there is such a phenomenon when a woman is treated as an object that has no feelings, no thoughts, no emotions, when a woman is perceived as something that is needed for daily maintenance. White mugs and plates, as a symbol of something immaculate, contrast with the black threads sewing images of faceless women psychologically affected by sexual objectification to the white body of the subject. Sewn — this means sewn into us (women) from childhood, this is when adult women perceive sexual objectification addressed to them as a compliment, because it has always been so and she does not know any other attitude towards herself.