Video: Dictators were once small too
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Surprisingly, people are not born villains. They become them. And even Gitelr and Stalin were once small. And they also had grandmothers. And this is what the Danish artist Nina Maria wants to emphasize in a series of her photographs, where her little son is dressed in the recognizable clothes of the main villains of the twentieth century.
Moms love to dress their kids in funny clothes. But the farthest in this business went the artist from Denmark Nina Maria. She dressed her son the way the greatest dictators of the twentieth century dressed: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Juan Peron, Benito Mussolini, Mao Tse Tung, Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein.
Before scolding this extravagant mother who turned her son into the main villains of human history with words, try to understand her idea. After all, Nina Maria did this series of photographs not for fun, but as a study of the nature of evil.
She asks the question: when did evil appear in these people? Were they born with these inclinations, or did they acquire them during their lifetime?
Of course, one can understand the creative position of Nina Maria, but it is unlikely that in twenty years she will show an album with these photographs to her son's bride when he brings her to meet his mother. Or will it be?
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