WASHINGTON, DC — Ivanka Trump isn’t so pleased with a D.C. performance art piece involving a lookalike vacuuming up crumbs thrown by visitors.
The First Daughter’s Twitter profile is generally a sunny feed promoting her initiatives, but a recent report on the exhibit by The Hill caused her to bristle.
“Women can choose to knock each other down or build each other up,” Trump said while posting a link to the article. “I choose the latter.”
Women can choose to knock each other down or build each other up. I choose the latter. https://t.co/MFri4xKhNI
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) February 5, 2019
The art piece, by CulturalDC, is titled “Ivanka Vacuuming.” In it, an Ivanka Trump lookalike waits for visitors to toss crumbs at her, and then she smilingly vacuums them up, according to the report.
The exhibit is at Flashpoint Gallery in downtown D.C., a block from the National Portrait Gallery.
New York-based artist Jennifer Rubell is the creator of the piece, which is meant to be “simultaneously a visual celebration of a contemporary feminine icon; a portrait of our own relationship to that figure; and a questioning of our complicity in her role-playing,” according to a statement.
“The viewer throwing crumbs, and Ivanka vacuuming them, is not a stand-in for one feeling, one relationship or one point of view toward this powerful and sexualized female form,” the statement continues. “It is intentionally open to multiple, often contradictory interpretations that are as critical of the interpreter as they are of the subject.”
The point of the exhibit is to make people think about society’s relationship with Ivanka Trump, Rubell said.
“Here is what’s complicated: we enjoy throwing the crumbs for Ivanka to vacuum. That is the icky truth at the center of the work. It’s funny, it’s pleasurable, it makes us feel powerful, and we want to do it more,” added Rubell in the statement. “We like having the power to elicit a specific and certain response. Also, we know she’ll keep vacuuming whether we do it or not, so it’s not really our fault, right?”
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