Jil Love
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Jil Love | |
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 A Jil Love artivism performance raising awareness about oil. | |
| Born | Tarragona, Spain |
| Years active | 2012-present |
| Website | jilloverevolution |
Jil Love
Jil Love is an artist and activist (artivist) whose work features public performance art and demonstration to create public awareness of human rights, the environment, animal rights, and LGBT rights.[1][2][3] She is known internationally for her work involving performance art and artistic passive resistance in public spaces using the human body, sometimes using nudity.[3]
Jil Love first came into the international spotlight in September 2012, as tensions between protestors and police rose during demonstrations outside a Spanish congressional summit. Jil Love took off her clothing and began praying in the street. Photographs of her action spread around the world on the Internet, as well as in print media.[1][3][4] In 2014, Jil Love appeared with hands and feet bound, with a suffocating plastic bag over her head, and a placard translating to "I am Catalonia" outside Spanish Parliament.[3] The photo, symbolic of Catalonia's fight for independence, was featured in The Wall Street Journal's Year in Photos 2014 compilation, featuring culturally significant photos from around the globe.[5] The photo was also pictured as the photo of the day in the Washington Post.[6][3]Through various press, including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Nation of Change and True Activist, her work has received worldwide attention.[7] In 2015, a photo of Jil Love protesting for Palestine on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was featured in the number three spot in trueactivist.com's 18 Of The Most Amazingly-Creative Protests Ever compilation.[8] Jil Love is the founder of the social movement Jil Love Revolution, which has recieved attention globally. According to Love, “The mission of Jil Love Revolution is to awaken a force in those who view our images…to raise awareness, ignite ideas and incite people to action.”[7]
In early 2014, Scottish energy company Cairn Energy came under intense criticism from numerous organizations and celebrities such as Diddy, Paris Hilton, Kate Moss and Fat Boy Slim among others, surounding the company's proposals to explore oil drilling in the Gulf of Valencia, off the coast of Ibiza Spain.[9] Jil Love organized demonstrations in Madrid and in Ibiza, featuring herself and other activists covered head to toe in fake oil. Jil love and eighteen volunteers appeared on beach of Talamanca naked and covered in fake oil, with a crowd of 200 people attending. About 150 people garbed and painted with black held posters reading "no". Her artistic performance in Ibiza was featured widely by various international press, including Diario de Ibiza and Metro in the UK.[9][10][11][12]
Early Life
Jil Love was born in Tarragona, Spain and was immersed in the arts at a young age by her family. Inspired by her mother's love of cinema, Love went to Barcelona at age 16 to pursue film studies. Love later worked in Madrid as a performer and public relations manager for a prominent night club. After drawing the attention of talent agencies and photographers, and other members of the entertainment industry, she appeared on television and in films, as an actress and model.[3]
History
Jil Love's first artivism took place in late September 2012 during Spanish Riots in Madrid, Spain, when she took off her clothing amidst the chaos surrounding her and began praying. Images of her partially nude in the street went viral on the Internet and was widespread in international media.[1][3][13][4]
In September 2014, Jil Love covered herself in duct tape like a mummy and was written on by others, protesting the Spanish gag law.[14]
An outspoken opponent of animal cruelty, in September 2014, Jil Love covered herself in fake blood to protest bullfighting in Spain.[7][15]
In March 2015, Jil Love was body painted with the names of forty-three missing Mexican students at the Mexican consulate in Los Angeles.[16]
Published Works
"We Are The Voices Of The Unheard" is a self-published book of Jil Love's work was published on December 1, 2015.[3]
References
- ^ a b c "Jil Love – The woman behind one of the biggest activism movements of our century".
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Jil Love Revolution The Catalyst for Change". ArtTour International Magazine. Fall 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Buchanan, Jr (October 2, 2016). "Jil Love Revolution A Peacefully Artistic Fight For Human, Animal and Environmental Rights". ArtTour International Magazine. Fall 2016: 10–14.
- ^ a b "These Boobs Kill Capitalists".
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Wall Street Journal Year in Photos 2014". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ "Washington Post Photos of the Day January 16, 2014".
- ^ a b c Turbeville, Brandon (June 8, 2016). "Artivist Jil Love Tackles Chemtrails, Vaccines and Animal Rights".
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "18 Of The Most Amazingly-Creative Protests Ever!".
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ a b "Celebrities join the fight against Ibiza oil drilling". METRO. February 9, 2014.
- ^ "El frío de 19 delfines muertos". Diario de Ibiza.
- ^ "El Frío de 19 Delfines Muertos". Diario de Ibiza.
- ^ "Jil love". Hands Off Ibiza.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Jil Love Revolution The Catalyst for Change".
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Spain: Activist covers herself in duct tape to protest 'gag law'". RUPTLY.
- ^ "Spain: See activist get NAKED in blood-red bullfighting protest *EXPLICIT*". RUPTLY.
- ^ "The Love Revolution". Black Chalk Magazine.