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Oren Seidner
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
The Cleaning People
During every day I stumble across what I believe the society see as the transparent people , just another brick in the wall that does a job that all of us wishes never to do . The cleaning crews , those who keep the floor clean all day long , those who collect our empty coffee mugs , filled with cigarettes and dripping garbage bags , those who mops our toilets and cleaning the street corners . But we can ’ t see them .
I choose to present those people in a moment of a pause in an arctic day The moment of their own .
stereotyped cultural categories . Do you consider that your works could be considered political in a certain sense or did you seek to maintain a more neutral approach ? And in particular , what could be in your opinion the role that an artist could play in the contemporary society ?
I believe that our role as artists is diffrenet then politicians speakers from the podium . I do not want " to determine " the narrative , the role of the artist is to make the viewer thinks and explore - but to reach its own conclusions . I personally tend towards more neutral approach , which I present the problem
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