“I'm trying to engage issues of power and sexuality and money and life and death and power. Power is the most free-flowing element in society, maybe next to money, but in fact they both motor each other.” TryingFactsNextPowerIssuesElementsSexualityLife And DeathMotor Author:Barbara Kruger
“I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.” TryingArtistSocialDealsDegreesDifficultyComplexityVisualsPresentationSocial Life Author:Barbara Kruger
“I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.” ThinkingTryingKindMomentsFeelingsUnderstandingRecognition Author:Barbara Kruger
“I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.” TryingIdeasArtistDealsIdentityFameHearsay Author:Barbara Kruger
“I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.” ThinkingFeelsTryingArtStillsStoriesCertainSocialLevelsArt IsVariousTyrannyResistanceSiteSocial LifeSubjectivity Author:Barbara Kruger
“What I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition.” TryingMomentsRecognition Author:Barbara Kruger
