I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.
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 KrugerIf I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
Barbara KrugerI see my work as a series of attempts to ruin certain representations and to welcome a female spectator into the audience of men. If this work is considered incorrect, all the better, for my attempts aim to undermine that singular pontificating male voice-over which correctly instructs our pleasures and histories or lack of them.
Barbara Kruger