Peter Land Denmark, b. 1966
Die dumme Dänen 2, 2020
Coloured pencil, crayon and watercolour on paper
71.5 x 56.5 cm
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'You are what you eat' – a tired cliché – doesn’t only apply to the individual. The identity of an entire people is often labelled by their alleged eating habits....
'You are what you eat' – a tired cliché – doesn’t only apply to the individual. The identity of an entire people is often labelled by their alleged eating habits. An American eats hamburgers, Belgians drink beer… The works Die dumme Dänen 1 & 2 (2020) confront us with this caricatural profiling. ‘Die dumme Dänen’ – the dumb Danes – was what the German Nazi’s called the Danes during the war and is a telling example of the superficial generalisation many peoples are subjected to.