Barbara Kruger
May 29–July 31, 2003
London
In an installation layering expansive wall images and large scale digital color photography, Kruger continues to visualize the possibilities, powers, and consequences that construct and contain us.
Barbara Kruger
May 29–July 31, 2003
London
In an installation layering expansive wall images and large scale digital color photography, Kruger continues to visualize the possibilities, powers, and consequences that construct and contain us.
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Since the early 90's, Kruger has been creating space defining installations which engage powerful mechanisms of display: from the envelopment of billboard size images, to rapidly morphing projected texts covering floors and walls, to resonant audio environments, to film and video projections. These installations join with her public projects of billboards, posters, everyday objects, newspaper images and TV and radio spots to produce an ongoing engagement with the pleasures and punishments of pictures and the power of words to zigzag between tenderness and verbal violence.
Focusing on the centrality of the body and its vulnerability and finiteness, this installation foregrounds issues of appearance and naming, of pleasure and pain, of beginnings and ends.