“It’s important that when young girls and women walk around Aarhus, that we also feel represented in the public environment,” Dueholm said of the motivation behind one pink minidress and a frilly skirt. “Not only as beautiful bodies without clothes, but as individuals with agency and power.”

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The Statues Were Mostly Men or Nude Women. So These Knitters Got to Work.

Women in Denmark, dismayed by unequal representation in public art, stitched together a protest campaign.

The New York Times