Ivanka Trump denounces Jennifer Rubell Performance -ARTnews

It may have been expected that the new work of Jennifer Rubell Ivanka Vacuuming currently underway in Washington, would provoke a kind of controversy, as it invites the public to throw crumbs on a pink carpet swept by an artist resembling the eldest daughter of President Donald Trump. And we are there.

Following reports on the report in the national press, Ivanka went on Twitter Tuesday to comment on the show. "Women can choose to knock themselves out or to build up," wrote Trump, referring to a story of Hill . "I chose the last one." A representative of Ivanka did not immediately respond to the request for comment.

Reached by ARTnews on Tuesday, Rubell said that she had asked Trump to do the work experience in person but in person. the invitation was unanswered. "When she commented, I was a bit surprised," said the New York – based artist, during a phone conversation.

Rubell added that she did not want the work to focus on Ivanka, but rather on her. there was a way to address the notions of femininity that surround the personality of Ivanka. "The piece explores issues relating to our response to a certain type of femininity, but it's not a piece that is aggressive towards it," Rubell said.

Kristi Maiselman, director of CulturalDC, the arts organization that commissioned the work and is currently hosting iterations, said in a statement: "CulturalDC does not just create a space for art, we make it accessible and attractive to the participants. With that, we would be happy to be able to invite Mrs. Trump to visit the exhibition so that she can see and make her own judgment. We hope that [Ivanka Trump] will see that Ivanka Vacuuming is relevant beyond its content because it removes perceived and real barriers between the artist and the public. "The organization is currently planning to hold nightly performances of the play Feb. 17.

Noting that Trump reacted not to the piece itself, nor even to a flow of performance available on the site Web from CulturalDC, but to a published article on the work, Rubell said that Trump's tweet was "indirect", adding, "The world has become completely meta."

This is not the first time that the the world of art goes to Trump In 2016, shortly after Trump's election as president, the Halt Action Group launched a report entitled Dear Ivanka in an effort to raise awareness of the art world. A collection of works by his first daughter made up of remarkable contemporary artists After the story was taken up by right-wing outlets, Cher Ivanka was the subject of controversy.