Published 3 September 2024 at 08.51
Domestic. The trend of female artists selling menstrual art and the like continues. Örebro municipality is now receiving criticism for having spent SEK 13 million on an art exhibition with a giant placenta in Svartån.
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It is the Danish artist Marie Munk , 36, who is behind the work «Placenta» and the purpose of which, according to her, is for us to «reflect on our becoming».
Munk now lives in the United States herself, where she invoices tax funds from various Nordic authorities that want to invest in the trend of men's art and female genitalia.
But not everyone is happy with the investment that is part of Örebro municipality's exhibition Open Art for 13 million kroner. Some believe that there is a lack of artistic innovation to constantly create artworks on the same theme and others warn of the high costs associated with each menstrual and genital work.
«In Örebro, the residents can consider themselves lucky that their tax funds goes to the core mission,» writes Moderate Youth Association chairman Douglas Thor on X.
When one user asks what's going on, Thor ironically continues:
«What do you hate culture? and democracy?»
Another user notes that this exhibition would hardly have started if direct democracy should have decided the issue.
«An incredibly tasteless and irresponsible waste of tax money», writes another user.
The user Pannkakan tags Sweden's municipalities and regions and writes the following:
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«Now you never have to ask for money for healthcare again. Responsible politicians should be jailed for this fraud».
The artist Marie Munk, for her part, is very positive about the financing of the original work and thanks a series of tax-funded – mainly Danish – authorities that contributed to the project.
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