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A safe family environment safeguards the world environment.

Poster
1995 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Lolli Aboutboul worked with the photographer Lana Wong to produce a set of 12 posters marking the Women's International Conference, Beijing, 1995. This was the fourth of a series of quinquennial World conferences on Women, (Mexico 1980, Copenhagen 1985, Nairobi, 1990). The posters were exhibited in Beijing at the time of the Conference and in London at the 'What Women Want' Festival at the Royal Festival Hall, in August the same year. They were then distributed across Europe by the United Nations Environmental Programme and also shown in Nairobi in January 1997. This particular combination of text and image suggests the discrepancies in expectations of married life. While the shop window projects the fantasy of 'happily ever after', the quotation illustrates how women have grown to expect violation from men, particularly within marriage. The implication of the poster is that if men and women respect and care for each other, they are also more likely to respect and care for the environment.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleA safe family environment safeguards the world environment.
Materials and techniques
Offset lithograph in black and red
Brief description
Poster for the campaign 'Empower Women Empower Earth', part of the United Nations Enivronmental Programme, 1995. Designed by Lolli Aboutboul; photographs by Lana Wong
Physical description
Photographic image with wide border. Photo is of a bridal boutique shop window, with mannequins displaying male and female wedding dress. A caption in red is overprinted. It reads: 'He is a good husband, he only hits me once a week'. Beneath the image in smaller type is the caption: 'Quotation: Focus on Women a UN leaflet'. The title caption is below this. The poster is stamped with a circular logo of letters reading: Empower Women Empower Earth around the letters UNEP [for United Nations Environmental Programme] and the United Nations logo.
Dimensions
  • Sheet height: 59.6cm
  • Sheet width: 42.1cm
Marks and inscriptions
Photography Lana Wong; Design Lolli Aboutboul; Concept Lolli Aboutboul and Lana Wong. Printed on re-cycled paper
Credit line
Given by Lolli Aboutboul
Production
one poster from a set of 12 for the Campaign| 'Empower Women, Empower Earth' for the United Nations Environmental Programme, 1995. The museum has three posters from the set.
Subjects depicted
Summary
Lolli Aboutboul worked with the photographer Lana Wong to produce a set of 12 posters marking the Women's International Conference, Beijing, 1995. This was the fourth of a series of quinquennial World conferences on Women, (Mexico 1980, Copenhagen 1985, Nairobi, 1990). The posters were exhibited in Beijing at the time of the Conference and in London at the 'What Women Want' Festival at the Royal Festival Hall, in August the same year. They were then distributed across Europe by the United Nations Environmental Programme and also shown in Nairobi in January 1997. This particular combination of text and image suggests the discrepancies in expectations of married life. While the shop window projects the fantasy of 'happily ever after', the quotation illustrates how women have grown to expect violation from men, particularly within marriage. The implication of the poster is that if men and women respect and care for each other, they are also more likely to respect and care for the environment.
Associated objects
Collection
Accession number
E.272-1998

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Record createdOctober 31, 2008
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