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A Danish artist dressed up her baby girl as Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein. Courtesy of Haaretz.com
Can you dress your baby like Hitler and call it art?Danish-Norwegian artist Nina Maria Kleivan did. Plus Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Saddam Hussein, Ayatollah Khomeini, Chairman Mao, Idi Amin, Augusto Pinochet and Slobodan Milosevic.
But why?
"We all have evil within us. Even small children are evil towards each other," Kleivan tells Israeli newspaper Haartetz.
Kleivan embarked on the project when, after giving birth to her daughter, Faustina -- now 11 years old -- serious pelvic joint pain kept her hospitalized for two months and wheelchair-bound at home for an additional four months. Out of boredom, she started sewing costumes of dictators and dressing up and photographing her daughter.
Her husband didn't support the project, and he lost it when he saw a swastika armband on the desk, Haartetz reports.
"'I'm aware that you're an artist, but this is wrong,' he told me," Kleivan tells Haaretz. "I've pondered that a lot myself: Could I really do this? I agree it's on the verge, especially Hitler, whom I and most others view as the incarnation of evil. He and Stalin were the hardest to do. It hurt."
Kleivan's Jewish aunt also wasn't pleased when she saw the exhibit in Sweden. "Most of her family disappeared in the German camps, I felt so bad telling her it was my work, because she didn't know, and was sickened by it," Kleivan says.
The photo series, "Potency," which also has been exhibited in Denmark, Italy and Germany, aims to illustrate one thing: "We all begin life the same. We all have every opportunity ahead of us. To do good, or inexplicable evil."
A doctor specializing in psychopathy penned a text to accompany a Kleivan exhibition in Stockholm, describing what evil is, its occurrence in men and women and how it affects us all, Haaretz reports.
He also wrote Kleivan that he had been discussing with colleagues whether or not her daughter would sustain long-term mental damage from being dressed up as these modern psychopaths. They decided that she wouldn't, but added, "Nevertheless, I recommend you save this letter."
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3-18-2010 @ 1:16PM
yifang0933 said...thanks
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4-01-2010 @ 5:19PM
Harvey said...I think one has to be mentally sick to push images of such horrificly evil people, as were Hitler, Stalin, etc.
While they cannot and should not be erased from history, nor the images of their horrendous deeds purged from our collective social memory, they must not become icons of anyhting other than the monsters they were.
WE must not lose our righteous sense of the noblity of man/womankind, and we must constantly be on alert for incursions on our conscience.
I believe we must protect the virtues of humanity by striving to eliminate the negativeity of immorality!
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4-02-2010 @ 1:30PM
Mark said...I'll agree that the woman has the right to do this and call it art...BUT...this surely can't be good for the child! Just because you have the right to do something doesn't mean it's intelligent to do it.
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1-13-2011 @ 9:53AM
Oline said...I doubt it'll have any affect on the child, honest to God. I see no reason why it should. Are you emotionally wrecked, due to having been dressed up as a princess at such early age you can not even remember it? I doubt it. The child knows not of the doings of these people, and as such _can't_ be affected by it.
People need to calm down. I actually think she makes a nice point, in that we all start out the same. For all anyone knows, their child could be the next Hitler.
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