Ivanka's a feminist, just like her father and brothers
Catherine Bennett
Sun 10 Feb 2019 02.00 EST
In a singular achievement for US conceptual art, an installation by Jennifer Rubell has prompted three to date of Donald Trumps children to disclose their horror of sexism.
The piece in question, Ivanka Vacuuming, recently opened in Washington DC. A video shows a woman in the Trump-preferred genre young, high-heeled, blond impassively pushing a vacuum cleaner around a pink carpet, on to which visitors are invited to throw crumbs, from a generous pile on a pedestal. Inspired by a figure whose public persona incorporates an almost comically wide range of feminine identities daughter, wife, mother, sister, model, working woman, blond Ivanka Vacuuming is, say the organisers, CulturalDC, simultaneously a visual celebration of a contemporary icon; a portrait of our own relationship to that figure; and a questioning of our complicity in her role playing ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/10/ivanka-trump-is-a-feminist-just-like-her-father-and-brothers