Vancouver artist Dina Goldstein puts U.S. presidency on biblical trial in her new series of photographs GlobeArts
, Vancouver-based artist Dina Goldstein takes 10 U.S. presidents – all played by locals – and inserts them into detailed tableaus of her creation.
“These right-wing Christians – how can they protest to be moral and support one of the most immoral people living? Now, I’m not religious at all. Actually, I’m the opposite. That’s why it infuriates me when people use religion in this way.”Goldstein’s fury has fuelled this project. For “You shall not commit adultery,” John F. Kennedy sips a Bloody Mary by a pool while a bikini-clad Marilyn Monroe, on the other side of a sliding glass door, sits on a bed with a laptop and cellphone.
She found her Lincoln at a party. Staring at a friend, she realized he shared certain features with the 16th president. JFK is a composite of three different men – the body belongs to the man she initially cast, the face belongs to the dad of a teammate on her daughter’s soccer team and a third man provides the hair.
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