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I think we can interrogate why people feel the desire to artistically depict suffering against various groups especially in a historical context where that suffering materially exists but it doesn’t automatically condemn or condone a work to interrogate it
like people make art to process their own suffering or the suffering of communities beyond themselves all the time. we also have instances where things like brutal depictions of violence against women are pretty much just titillation
but similarly the intent or internality of a work isn’t the entirety of a work. it also matters how this work is in the hands of various audiences; something triggering to one person can be empowering or properly provoking to another while negatively inspirational to a third
this is why it’s just about as lazy to say things like transgressive art is automatically good or bad just by nature of being transgressive. there’s a lot of angles
