It could be tempting to compare American superstar artist Barbara Kruger with pop superstar Madonna - both have been continually producing hits for decades and continue to demand respect and admiration from both the critical and popular angles. However, don’t go making this kind of comparison around Barbara - she’d probably have your guts for garters.
Kruger’s largest Australian exhibition sees the magical white spaces of ACCA overtaken by video installation and her trademark text-and-image billboards. We see enlarged photographs commanded and fragmented by bold, pithy statements such as ‘I shop therefore I am’ or ‘you construct intricate rituals which allow you to touch the skin of other men’. There is a humour that rests in the disjunction between the satirical bent of the images and the indictment of the text, which reminds us of the power, influence and control of language.
Medium: Installation
Drink: Bottle of red
Keywords: ACCA, Barbara Kruger, Art
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