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Stanley Shoemaker

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that had an opposite effect as you see
it, thats why I use the ocean as a
background, the sea always has a
positive and relaxing effect on me, and
thats what Im trying to say, that even if
your country has a darkest period in its
own history you can always change
things and see a positive future…
In nuclear dream I thought of all the
people that were at prypiat at the time
of the nuclear accident, every gas mask
that is on the floor represents someone
who was at that period of time in the
city, so, I want to depict and show that
everybody no matter the gender, age
or social status has to live and dream
of a safer world.
We have really appeciated the way you
work provides a different perspective
on our own society: while lots of visual
artists from the contemporary scene,
as Thomas Hirschhorn and Michael
Light, use to convey open sociopolitical criticism in their works, you
seem more interested to hint the
direction, inviting the viewers to a
process of self-reflection that may lead
to subvert a variety of usual cultural
categories. Do you consider that your
works could be considered political in
a certa in 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 don’t think that my work represents a
political approach, maybe it has a
peculiar way of expressing our culture
and our problems as a global society, I
try to get in the viewers psyche, and in

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