What Was She Wearing? confronts the victim-blaming rhetoric that shadows femicides by opposing the question itself.

Actual news headlines are embroidered onto separate fabric pieces to construct a patchwork dress; names and identifiers are partially redacted, exposing media practices that anonymize the victim while shifting responsibility away from the perpetrator.

The dress hangs within a frame on fine wires—there is no body, only the trace left by text. Around the frame, three-dimensional “fire tulips” allude to historical witch-burnings, suggesting the continuity of sanctioned violence through time.

Soft textiles oppose rigid wire, staging a material tension between fragility and threat. Red stitches evoke wound and suture, holding together and piercing at once.

The work turns a garment from supposed “evidence” into testimony, asking viewers to reconsider their gaze, language, and demands for justice. Ultimately, the piece insists that the question should never have been about clothing, but about accountability.