外文选自《The Gardian》
A new art exhibit at a Washington DC museum shows an Ivanka Trump lookalike pushing a vacuum cleaner and invites spectators to toss crumbs for her to clean up.
vacuum/ˈvækjuəm/ n.真空 a vacuum cleaner 真空吸尘器
例句：The collapse of the army left a vacuum in the area.
这支军队的溃败使这个地区出现了军事真空。
spectator/spekˈteɪtə(r)/ n.观众
例句：Thirty thousand spectators watched the final game.
3万名观众观看了决赛。
The art piece by Jennifer Rubell, Ivanka Vacuuming, opened on 1 February and continues through 17 February at the Flashpoint Gallery. The public is encouraged to “throw crumbs on to the carpet, watching as Ivanka elegantly vacuums up the mess, her smile never wavering”.
elegantly/'elɪɡəntlɪ/ adv.高雅地
例句：She was elegantly dressed with a double strand of pearls about her neck.
她着装典雅，搭配着一条双层珍珠项链。
A large text description of the work hanging on the gallery wall describes Trump as “a figure whose public persona incorporates an almost comically wide range of feminine identities – daughter, wife, mother, sister, model, working woman, blonde”. It calls the act of throwing bread crumbs on to the carpet for her to vacuum “surprisingly pleasurable”.
comically/'kɒmɪklɪ/ adv.滑稽地,可笑地
He began comically ad-libbing a script.
他即兴调侃起了一段剧本。
But Trump and her brothers Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump criticized the exhibit on Tuesday as a sexist attempt to humiliate her.
“Women can choose to knock each other down or build each other up. I choose the latter,” Ivanka Trump, a senior White House adviser, tweeted alongside a link to a story on the exhibit.
Trump Jr tweeted: “Sad, but not surprising to watch self professed ‘feminists’ launching sexist attacks against Ivanka Trump. In their crazed world, sexism is OK if hurts their political enemies.”
Eric Trump, on Fox News, called his sister a “powerful woman who has done more for women than probably anybody in Washington DC”.
(An Ivanka Trump lookalike vacuums crumbs thrown by spectators at Jennifer Rubell’s art exhibit Ivanka Vacuuming 2019. Photograph: Sait Serkan Gurbuz/AP)
The work is open to the public from 6pm to 8pm, presented by the CulturalDC arts organization. Its executive director, Kristi Maiselman, said her group was always happy to present “timely boundary-pushing installations” like this.
The gallery text declares Ivanka Trump to be a “contemporary feminine icon” and an avatar for the complexities of modern femininity.
Rubell, a New York-based conceptual artist, said in an interview on the CulturalDC website that the experience is meant to draw observers and crumb-throwers into a complicit relationship.
“Here is what’s complicated: We enjoy throwing the crumbs for Ivanka to vacuum. That is the icky truth at the center of the work. It’s funny, it’s pleasurable, it makes us feel powerful, and we want to do it more,” she said.
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