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by ASHRAF KHALIL, Associated Press
A spectator throws crumbs for a Ivanka Trump look-alike to vacuum up at Jennifer Rubell's "Ivanka Vacuuming 2019" art show on Tuesday, February 5, 2019 at the Flashpoint Gallery in Washington. (AP photo / Sait Serkan Gurbuz)
WASHINGTON (AP) – A new art exhibition in a Washington museum shows a Ivanka Trump look-alike pushing a vacuum and invites viewers to throw crumbs for it to clean.
The work of Jennifer Rubell, entitled "Ivanka Vacuuming", was opened on February 1 and will continue until February 17 at Flashpoint Gallery. The audience is encouraged to "throw crumbs on the rug, watching Ivanka elegantly clean the mess, her smile never wavering".
Ivanka Trump is featured in a great textual description of the work hanging on the gallery wall: "a personality whose public figure incorporates an almost comical range of female identities – girl, wife, mother, sister, model , hardworking and blonde ". It calls the act of throwing bread crumbs on the carpet so that it gets the "astonishingly pleasant" vacuum cleaner.
But Ivanka Trump and her brothers Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump criticized the exhibition on Tuesday as a badist attempt to humiliate him.
"Women can choose to hit or build themselves, I choose this one," Ivanka Trump, a senior White House advisor, added, with a link to an article about the story.
Trump Jr. tweeted, "Sad, but not surprising to see" feminists "launching badist attacks against @IvankaTrump.In their crazy world, badism is acceptable if it hurts their political enemies."
Fox News' Eric Trump has described his sister as "a powerful woman who has done more for women than anyone in Washington DC".
The work is open to the public from 18h. at 8 pm The exhibition is presented by the cultural organization CulturalDC and its director general, Kristi Maiselman, said that his group was always happy to present "timely installations that push the boundaries" like this one.
The gallery's text states that Ivanka Trump is a "contemporary feminine icon" and an avatar of the complexities of modern femininity.
Rubell, a New York-based conceptual artist, said in an interview on the CulturalDC website that the experiment was meant to attract observers and crumb-throwers into a complicit relationship.
"Here's what's complicated: we like to throw away the crumbs for Ivanka to vacuum, it's the cruel truth at the center of the job." It's funny, it's nice, it gives us the feeling of being powerful, and we want to do it more "says. "Also, we know that she will continue to vacuum, whether we do it or not, so it's not really our fault, is it?"
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