Richard Michaud

USA


These works confront the grotesque theater of power: a dictator dressed in the borrowed costume of a president. Through fractured pixels, sickly flesh tones, and corrupted portraiture, Trump is not presented as a leader, but as an infection wearing authority like a mask. The images distort the familiar face until it becomes machinery, rot, spectacle, and warning. They speak to the collapse of civic language, where flags, suits, podiums, and patriotic gestures can be used to launder cruelty into policy and ego into nationhood.


The ugliness is intentional. It refuses polish because dictatorship is never clean beneath the uniform. These pieces turn presidential imagery into a damaged screen, a public wound, and a record of decay. They ask what happens when power stops pretending to serve people and begins demanding worship. Beneath the costume is not strength, but fear, vanity, and the appetite to dominate everything, without shame or restraint.


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