Is it true that Volodymyr Zelenskiy is also naked holding the hand of a woman without clothes in the sculpture?

Called transformers

Photograph of the open sculpture on November 21. appeared In the Facebook group “People’s Journalism”.

“This is FAKE (fake – ed. post.) is this statue really there somewhere?”

who is here TRANSFORMERS OF THE FUTURE?” – side by side asked the man who posted it.

The photo shows two naked people – a man and a woman holding hands. More shocking than the fact that the couple’s bodies are bare is the sight of those bodies.

After all, a woman has not only a large breast, but also a penis between her legs, and a man has a vulva right there. This one is holding warm clothes to wear and, it seems, a real girl. Behind the trio you can see people walking and standing, a picture on the wall, so you can guess that this is an art exhibition.

Another unusual detail is that the man’s face is very similar to that of Ukrainian leader V. Zelensky.

A reverse image search shows that this photo has been shared for years, although in earlier versions the man looks less like the president.

For example, in this one in photographywhich in 2021 was published in one in a Russian forum with a sarcastic comment about “modern art in ‘civilized’ Europe”.

Or in this one, which in 2016 December announced one blogger.

Shown in various exhibitions

At the same time, you can also find photos showing the same sculpture, but without the girl, from a different angle or outside the exhibition environment. It was used even in one research paper in Brazil in 2012.

Reverse image search helps you find out which sculpture is captured in the photograph.

A few shots with a nude couple can be found in the Getty Images photo database. Their author is also indicated here – Quinnas Brands.

There is also a photo similar to the one of a girl holding a man’s hand (same angle and red-hued painting on the far wall). The sculpture was photographed in 2014. in an Istanbul gallery.

The artist created his work in 2010. demonstrated At the White Cube Gallery Londone, 2013 m. – at the Venice Biennale. In those days, V. Zelenskis was A board member and general producer of the Inter TV channel, he starred in films made in Ukraine and Russia, so he could hardly attract the attention of a foreign artist.

Jooba’s lacquered bronze sculpture, created in 2009, depicts real people and is named after them – Buck & Allanah.

“Transgenders Buck Angel and Allanah Starr standing hand-in-hand and walking into their future as radically changed beings,” yes described the piece.

A modern day story of Adam and Eve

Now 62 years old Buck Angel is a sex educator, former porn actor and producer. He was born a girl, but already in childhood she was characterized by gender atypical behavior. When this became apparent in adolescence, bullying began at school, and there were suicide attempts.

At the age of 28, Buck began the process of gender reassignment. After hormone therapy was completed, the breasts were removed. At that time, there was no technology to create the penis he wanted, so the genitals remained unoperated. True, a dozen years ago, Buck had a hysterectomy for medical reasons.

Allanah Starr also has experience in pornographic films, is a model. She was born in Cuba a boymoved to the USA with his family at the age of 5. The childhood of the future celebrity was also not easy, but also because the father was a political prisoner.

The powerful couple in the sculpture, according to critics, suggests a modern creation myth: the story of Adam and Eve, celebrating the loss of innocence expressed in the radical possibilities of self-expression in the 21st century.

Buck & Allanah is part of M.Quinn “Body changes” series. It analyzes how, with the help of modern medicine and technology, people have modified their external bodies to reflect the identity they want to create and to bring it out.

Artist Marc Quinn on his work titled Evolution 2

Mr. Quinn has always been interested in society’s obsession with the body, its perfections and flaws, and how this obsession has led some to modify their bodies in increasingly extreme ways.

Artist in my opinionBuck & Allanah provide a commentary on the transformative potential of how people can create their own worlds.

The sculpture questions the very concept of identity, revealing it as a fragile, complex and multi-layered construct that continuously coexists with our physical self.

Buck & Allanah is said to show that culture and identity can triumph over biology.

15min Verdict: Changed photo. Such a sculpture really exists. It was created by artist M.Quinn, who immortalized real people – transsexuals Allanah Starr and Buck Angel. The latter’s face in the photo was edited to resemble that of Ukrainian President V. Zelensky.

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