This is an article about Vanessa Beecroft who collaborates with Kanye West
nymag.com/thecut/2016/08/vanessa-beecroft-bodies-artist.html
It's quite long but I find it quite interesting. She talks about identifying with black people but my impression us that she identifies with them in a kind of othering, slightly patronising way.
She went to Sudan to learn about African culture and ended up breastfeeding some orphaned black twins, there is a picture she took on the article which is portrait style and called "white Madonna with twins". It seems exploitative to me. But maybe this is acceptable as "art".
Just wondered what others thought?
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"If I don't call myself white, maybe I am not"
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Felascloak · 10/08/2016 09:42
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