'I could identify with [Kanye West]. For instance, he told me he wouldn’t do poses. He would only look straight ahead into the camera.'
through February 2019, the discussion boiling around Shin’s ten billboard-size portraits of Kanye West—alongside three less discussed x-ray portraits of the artist herself—is just a logical extension of her work. “I knew I wanted to do something about this masculine energy that everyone has such a problem with lately,” Shin explained. “I also considered asking Hillary Clinton. But a friend had a contact for Kanye, so I wrote to him and simply asked.
Some people feel that art should contain social utility, or that art should be required to meet certain moral and political standards, but then what you end up with is propaganda.We’re seeing people freak out about the morality of art at a time when many feel their own grip on history—let alone the future—slipping. For these viewers, canceling art, asserting their veto power over it, isn’t just exciting, it’s fundamentally cathartic. But in these times you need art to push farther than ever.
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