2025
Digital billboards
2 of 9 from
Woman = Man
1080 x 1920px Jpeg, RGB Colour as black & white
8 March 2025
Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, UK
Woman=Man
is a series of public art posters commissioned by Clear Channel Europe to mark United Nations International Women's Day 2025.
Firrell reasoned International Women's Day calls for equality regardless of gender. Put as simply as possible, it calls for a world where woman=man.
The result is this very compressed expression of equivalence: one gender is equivalent to another, one language to another, one person to another.
The artworks belie Firrell's earlier career in advertising; they could be advertisements for fashion or perfume. Except nothing is for sale.
The person depicted is of deliberately ambiguous gender. According to the artist, 'if you cannot be sure of the gender of the individual, you cannot be sure whether your prejudices should apply or not.'
Woman=Man
continues the artist's drive towards greater and greater simplicity first evident in 2023's
All Varieties
(2023.2.1 - 2023.2.18)