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Manifest (thank god) by Benjamin Lignel

Pin / Political Conceptual

Published: 02.06.2010

Pin: Manifest (thank god) by Benjamin Lignel.Screenprinting on paper and acetate, stainless steel, gold plating. 2008.ø 5.6 cmMultiple piece.What is happening, I think, is this: Religious prejudice is becoming a proxy for racial prejudice. In public at least, it’s not acceptable to express reservations about a candidate’s skin colour,
. so discomfort about race is sublimated into concerns about whether Mr. Obama is sufficiently Christian.
. Nicholas D. Kristof, The Push to ‘Otherize’ Obama. NewYork Times, 21 September 2008.

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