Riiko Sakkinen | Other Drawings | Your 5th World Toilet Cleaner
Your 5th World Toilet Cleaner
September 2016, Pepino

January 2017, Mänttä
172 x 121 cm
Giclee print, enamel, permanent marker and stickers on paper
i Conguitos, or “little Congolese”, is a Spanish sweet brand. Conguitos are sold in all Spanish kiosks, which often parade the mascot of the brand.

The Fourth World refers to the people who live on the fringes or outside Western society, in economical conditions typical of the Third World. For example, the homeless and the prostitutes working on the streets are included in this group. Riiko Sakkinen’s concept “Fifth World” distinguishes undocumented refugees and migrants as a group of people whose situation is even graver. For them, it is difficult to integrate even into the Fourth World.

Serlachius Museums, Mänttä.
Tags: racism, toilet, immigration, refugee
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