This picture of a Russian socialite and editor of Garage magazine, Dasha Zhukova, sitting in a black woman bondage chair is causing outrage across the internet, and I honestly can’t quite understand why? The photo along with an interview of Dasha Zhukova was published yesterday on Buro 247, an online Russian magazine, which so happened to be Martin Luther King, Jr Day.
What MLK has to do with this picture is beyond me? Or why anyone would want to associate this picture with MLK day is equally puzzling? It’s reminds me of certain folks who wanted to link Medgar Evers’s death to Trayvon Martin. Ummmm no!
I swear someone has a full time job distracting black people from what’s really important by creating unnecessary outrage on days we should be celebrating our history. So what this women is sitting in a chair that resembles a black woman in bondage? Perhaps other than racism there is a point to the juxtaposition of the white woman versus the bondage chair? Perhaps the chair is a statement of art! Why was the chair even made in the first place? Does it change your mind knowing there are other pieces in the collection featuring other races equally offensive to women, to humans. What if it’s really about S&M bondage, and not about race? Are black women not into bondage? Are black women women exempt from works of art? If Dasha Zhukova sat in a chair of a white woman in bondage, would you even care?
My point is this piece definitely sparks conversation, but perhaps in other ways than, “That’s racist!”
Secondly, this series comes from sculptor and designer Allen Jones, they were created in 1969 as pieces of his forniphilia series. Forniphilia is the sexual objectification of a human beings through S&M bondage, not race specific, where a person’s real body is actually used as furniture. The original pieces consisted of white women only, artist Bjarne Melgaard, recreated this series using black sculptures. And yes, adding a black woman as a piece of furniture adds layers of race and history to the debate, but the pieces are created to be provocative, and to be deconstructed.
Sadly people are more outrage by this piece of art than when women are actually objectified in this manner in pop culture via music videos. Like for real, your favorite rapper is sitting beer cans on a woman’s butt. I bet Dasha Zhukova knows the context of this chair, the history of the art piece, do you? Be outrage, but be informed first!
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