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Modern Scandinavian Prints
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- 2003 London •
lamda-print on perspex • 100 x 100 cm
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Poverty
and inequality have long been raping European people, tearing
populations apart and causing hatred amongst them. The uneven share of
wealth keeps up the barriers between countries and builds up tension
amongst citizens in their states. Mäkipää takes a photograph of two
ladies having rats for dinner. The backdrop is a typical third class
cityscape, which offers no space for decency. This situation is a
paradigm of the inefficiency that still haunts Europe. The dinner of
rats is a readily available resource of food for unprivileged citizens.
The city-dwellers and landscape-inhabitants meet at the nutritional
chain, while the "sisters" Mäkipää stress the gap between the
struggling European communities and the Scandinavian welfare society
(from which the artist herself originates). Unlike many places in
Europe, according to these artists, the standard of Sweden is to provide for every
individual optimal possibilities to develop his/her skills and
capabilities. This is possible - so they remind less fortunate countries
in the world - with a system of free education for all
and a safety-net of institutions that help citizens at difficult moments
in their life. it seems that Europe and the rest of the world - despite its history - has a long
way to go and with much to learn.
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