So much of my work involved the Vietnam War that it would have been obscene to show it in a gallery. But now, itโs different; itโs important to remember and to enable the young to discover what to some of us is still so present.
Martha RoslerPhotography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.
Martha RoslerThe exposรฉ, the compassion and outrage, of documentary fueled by the dedication to reform has shaded over into combinations of exoticism, tourism, voyeurism, psychologism and metaphysics, trophy hunting - and careerism.
Martha RoslerDocumentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by leaving it behind. (It is them, not us.)
Martha Rosler