Abramovich's Girlfriend Apologizes for Posing on 'Black Woman' Chair
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The founder of the Garage contemporary art center and billionaire Roman Abramovich’s longtime girlfriend, Dasha Zhukova, apologized Tuesday for a photograph showing her sitting on a chair designed to look like a half-naked black woman.
The photo, which accompanied an interview with Zhukova by the fashion website Buro247.ru, emerged online Monday as the U.S. was celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which remembers the impact of the African-American civil rights leader. The image has since been cropped to show just Zhukova and the chair’s “feet” after the picture caused outrage among Internet users who said it was racist.
In a statement sent to The Moscow Times, Zhukova said, “This photograph, which has been published completely out of context, is of an art work intended specifically as a commentary on gender and racial politics. I utterly abhor racism, and would like to apologize to anyone who has been offended by this image.”
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