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Putins a WASTEMAN

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“Putins a WASTEMAN” (2022) follows the tradition of diss tracks and rap battles to respond to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, directed at the egoism of Vladimir Putin. In the music video, a full-length Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley is seen rapping insults on top of a close-up of Putin’s face. Her body “destroys him,” distorting his image as she questions, “What’s he doing this for?” Misusing a rotoscoping technique in AR, Putin wipes into a hazy landscape of cloned figures. “It’s an elaborate transition…,” Brathwaite-Shirley explains, “The dissolving of someone, similar to how you dissolve one image to another.” Not only does this transition away from images that he produces of himself, it suggests a transition in and out of office. The artist often finds the breaking points of tools, intentionally embellishing and embracing the “mistakes” in order to see how far the glitch will go. Brathwaite-Shirley created this work specifically for this exhibition.

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