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[deleted] t1_iqqjox2 wrote

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Unite-y t1_iqr922n wrote

Because the people in the shadows represent "white trash" (drinking/smoking/ratty clothes/bad haircuts/sitting on the ground). For those who don't know American slang, "white trash" is a slang term and you can't interchange the word white with other colors because it wouldn't make sense.

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[deleted] t1_iqqy11t wrote

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the_god_o_war t1_iqr7i10 wrote

Pre woke post opioid crisis lol, thats why it's labeled that lol

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Esco-Alfresco t1_iqrtqub wrote

Post crack you mean. Opioid crisis is very recent. And both are American. I wouldn’t be surprise if they are European artists.

Anyway it’s called that because it is made from the garbage they produce in a week or two. The culture of consuming and making waste is trashy. Just like drinking and smoking and other behaviours can be.

It is a joke. But also a statement on the unseen waste of our lifestyles.

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LadyCardinal t1_iqr2p59 wrote

It's interesting people seem to be taking this as a race thing (as in, "white people are trash," I guess) instead of a class thing. Poor white people in the U.S. are sometimes called "white trash." This may in some way be meant as a commentary on that.

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Esco-Alfresco t1_iqrt2z8 wrote

Because they artists are white. And the art is made out of the trash from what they consumed over a month or so. I can’t remember the exact themes but it has an obvious innate feeling when you know it is from what they consumed that it is sort of tying today the junk we consume and the junk we produce from consuming and how that is part of our culture. A trashy part of our culture. The title is likely a bit tongue in cheek. Like you are what you eat, and he we are depicted by our trash.

You can look up if you want the answer in the artists words. *6 months trash. If it helps there are also trash shadow statues like this in the set of them pissing on the ground. Which is a trashy behaviour.

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chiyoli t1_iqr90ip wrote

Because it’s a self portrait of the two artists who made it who were also both white.

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uninvitedfriend t1_iqrhdmm wrote

"White trash/poor white trash" has long been a derogatory phrase for lower class white people. While calling someone trash is a general insult, there's not really another specificied version of trash that is a standardly used insulting phrase.

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