‘The Female Body Has Always’ — VALIE EXPORT Quote Tee | Wear Words Black-on-White Statement Shirt — Muscle Tank

“The female body has always been a construction.” VALIE EXPORT — who took her name in capital letters as a brand, discarding the surnames of father and husband — made this case around her 1983 film Syntagma, arguing that the female body is always culturally assembled, shaped even by the feminist art that means to free it. She spent her career exposing the assembly line: the body arrives to us already built by other hands, and the first act of freedom is seeing that.

**Bella+Canvas 3483 — Muscle Tank (Black only for now, Color finish).** A white option isn’t available from our printer at the moment — we’ll add it the moment it is. 100% combed & ring-spun cotton, 4.2 oz, 30 singles. Unisex muscle fit, crew neck, cut-off sleeves, wide armholes, side-seamed, pre-shrunk. Care: machine wash cold with like colors, tumble dry low, no bleach, cool iron inside-out (never iron the print).