Sunshine on a Cannibal
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ミネアポリス, アメリカ合衆国
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Ojibwe artist Andrea Carlson thinks of the way dominant cultures (usually white U.S. or western European) identify others as “exotic” as a kind of “cultural cannibalism”—sensationalizing in order to objectify and consume them, even as they erase them through assimilation.
The dense, layered imagery in Sunshine on a Cannibal is drawn from particular Native American artworks, European paintings, and conceptual artworks, and reclaims what “westerners” have historically sought to define and objectify.
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The central “Tower of Babel” rests on an upside-down base of the same tower, suggesting that even in recreating itself the dominant culture is a victim of its own cultural cannibalism. The words “Mondo Cane” printed on a mask reference the 1962 Italian film of the same name, in which filmmakers mixed documentary footage of various “non-western” cultures with staged scenes to produce a “shockumentary”— believed by an unsuspecting public to be entirely factual. Carlson's work challenges the concept of other and asks us to consider how cultures are consumed by one another.
ミネアポリス美術館
作品データ
- 収蔵番号
- 2017.29a-x
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出典
- ミネアポリス美術館
- 画像： ミネアポリス美術館 — © Andrea Carlson
