Marina's self portrait project - Justice for George Floyd

Justice for George Floyd

  

Inspired images

        My project discusses an issue we face every day, racism, which makes the people of color suffer in United States of America. As Wangechi Mutu: A New Face for the Met states that It is testament to her belief that, like street theater or religious rituals, art can nudge viewers toward congregation. This is the idea behind mixing fashion, art and an issue in the society in a portrait that will attracts people’s attention toward the issue. In my portrait, I inspired by Marilyn Monroes and Michael Jackson’s portraits and I have followed Andy Warhol techniques in repeating the picture of a famous person and so colorful like fashion and art mixing together about an important issue that people have to care about. This way of representing celebrities’ portraits is what grabbed my attention toward this type of art and inspired me to do the same with George Floyd’s portrait. Andy Warhol used to create reptation in his portraits of the famous people, with different color.  As it states in the An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord’s ‘The Society of the Spectacle article, “Rather than talk of the spectacle, people often prefer to use the term ‘media,’” he writes, “and by this they mean to describe a mere instrument, a kind of public service.” So the media can talk and describe an issue by images and art than talking about that issue. Usually, watching art is a way better than listening to news or to someone talking about news, so Andy Warhol used repeating portraits when he wanted to talk about a celebrity, or and an advertising about a product. My project speaks about me and my thoughts and interests about justice, equality, and no racism, because I suffer sometimes due to my Arab race. George Floyd death had hurt too many of us and we all refused it, some people protest against it and requested equality and justice after everyone talked about it, people started drawing his photos on walls, which was art and encouraged people to talk and protest. 

Quotes

• Although the image encapsulates Debord’s contempt for consumer culture, it reductively implies that his work was mediaphobic.

• Although I have read a lot, I have drunk more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk more than the majority of the people who drink. 

• Her sculptures reflect critically on social and ecological injustices and inequalities. Female transformation and empowerment are at the core of all her ideas, and in evidence in the completed work.

• ” That is, women express “wealth, status, family, tribe” through their bearing and ornamentation, which are “all languages definable as art.”