(Left) A statue, “The King of the World” depicting President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein (Photo: File Photo/ Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters); (Right) Art installation in Tehran features performer dressed as Trump in mock jail cell. (Photo: X)
\n\nArt is political. Artists have long used it to show dissent or make a statement. Banksy, who has never shown his face, has spent years on walls attacking political dysfunction and war. Frida Kahlo made her own body an argument about gender and identity. In Iran, the state is using art to mock the President of the United States, Donald Trump.
\n\nHigh above Tehran’s Tajrish Square, in a well-off corner of the city’s north, a mock prison cell juts out from a billboard. AFP reports that in this art installation, an actor in a dark suit and red tie, wearing a Trump mask, paces the cell or grips its bars. Al Jazeera says a slogan beside him reads: “It is a crime not to see this scene.” Passers-by photograph themselves in front of it, and one joked that they would pay his bail.
\n\nThis mock art installation in Tehran has the support of the state, and not an individual artist is behind it. AFP reports…
Original source: https://www.timesnownews.com/lifestyle
