I 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 KrugerI have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.
Barbara KrugerI think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
Barbara Kruger