2018 Yeezy Taught Me
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2018.
MAGA Yeezy
In ‘Yeezy Taught Me’, the iconic Yeezy Boost Waverunner 700 sneaker by Hip Hop artist Kanye West is presented. In a lot of ways this shoe is a relic of the West’s contentious struggle to enter the very white, “fashion world elite”. Appalled by West’s support of the racist rhetoric of the conservative Trump movement, a bouquet of dead flowers in this vase as an allegory for the death of an artist who was once seen as an advocate for the black community.
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This work functions on 3 levels. It can be seen as an allegory for the artist’s journey to find his own creative voice; 3 dimensional still lives, which contrast symbols of wealth and symbols of ephemerality; and commentary on the nuanced relationship between race and capitalism in America.
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