Video: A portrait of collective stupidity. Provocative work by Robert Rickhoff
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Recently, pictures with the caption "Guess the country from a photograph" have become very popular on the Russian-language Internet, which show vivid examples stupidity and irrationality … But it turns out that similar problems exist not only in Russia, but also in Germany, where a local artist Robert Rickhoff created a selection of author's photographs with the title Re-interpreted Everyday Scenes.
The state in all its manifestations was created in order to make the life of its citizens better, more convenient, more comfortable, richer and easier. However, not all countries are able to cope with this task. And even the richest powers such as Germany are not immune from stupidity and incompetence.
It is the mistakes made in the creation of urban infrastructure, the misuse of funds and other scourges of any modern society that are the subject of a series of photographs by Robert Rickhoff Re-interpreted Everyday Scenes.
Robert Rickhoff forms special spaces where human stupidity is injected into the absolute. Where children's swings and slides stand right next to the road, there is even a speed bump on the train tracks, and there are no more parking spaces except for disabled cars.
Of course, all of these objects depicted in photographs created by Robert Rickhoff do not actually exist. This is a fantasy of the author, whose aspiration was to try to maximize the exaggeration of contemporary realities.
Robert Rickhoff himself explains the idea of a series of photographs Re-interpreted Everyday Scenes by his desire to make people look around carefully so that they notice all kinds of street nonsense and promptly report them to those who can fix it.
Civilian control is what can eradicate incompetence, negligence, and outright disregard for one's business!
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