Guerrilla Tactics Call for Gorilla Masks
April 5. 2016 | Huffington Post
The art protest group Guerrilla Girls recently performed in front of a packed, yet intimate, crowd in Westchester, NY. A stage sat in ArtsWestchester’s gallery, appropriately surrounded by its “SHE: Deconstructing Female Identity” exhibition, which explores what it means to be a woman in contemporary America.
For more than 30 years, this group of anonymous women has exercised guerrilla tactics in gorilla masks to draw attention away from them and toward the lack of diversity in the art world. We don’t know their faces or even their names. They’ve taken the names of dead female artists as pseudonyms.
“You’d be surprised what comes out of your mouth when you have a mask on,” said one of the groups founders, Frida Kahlo. “And you’d be surprised what people aren’t afraid to say back to you.”