Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger
Barbara Krugeris an American conceptual artist. Much of her work consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions—in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed. The phrases in her works often include pronouns such as "you", "your", "I", "we", and "they", addressing cultural constructions of power, identity, and sexuality. Kruger lives and works in New York and Los Angeles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionConceptual Artist
Date of Birth26 January 1945
CityNewark, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.
The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.
I've always been very tied to language.
Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.
I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
Memory is your image of perfection.
We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
I have no complaints, except for the world.
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.
All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype,
It's a small world, but not if you have to clean it
I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.