I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But to me the real power of photography is based in death: the fact that somehow it can enliven that which is not there in a kind of stultifying frightened way, because it seems to me that part of one's life is made up of a constant confrontation with one's own death.
Barbara KrugerBut I really resist categories โ that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art โ those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.
Barbara KrugerI remember going into galleries and seeing this thing called conceptual art, and I understand peopleโs marginalization from what the art subculture is because if you havenโt crashed the codes, and if you donโt know what it is, you feel itโs a conspiracy against your unintelligence. You feel itโs fraud.
Barbara Kruger