In sewing and dressmaking, a ruffle, frill, or furbelow is a strip
of fabric, lace or ribbon tightly
gathered or pleated on one
edge and applied to a garment, bedding, or other textiles as a form
of trimming.
Cronin
gathered hundreds
of articles
of women's and girls» clothing from around the world to represent three specific tragedies: brightly - colored saris symbolize two Indian girls who were kidnapped, gang - raped, and lynched from a tree at the
edge of their village; hijabs signify 276 Nigerian Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram in 2014 — over 200
of whom still remain missing; and gray and white aprons & uniforms symbolize those worn by «fallen women,» in forced labor at the Magdalene Asylums and Laundries in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the U.S. Moving from the marble alters and sacred architecture
of Venice's sixteenth - century Chiesa di San Gallo to the secular gallery context
of FLAG, Cronin will present the same three
fabric sculptures, here piled on top
of their shipping crates to now address human trafficking as well as human rights issues.