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Barbara Kruger

Barabra Kruger is an Artist who uses many words in her practice. Kruger’s Belief + Doubt is something very interesting that has caught my interests. It’s an installation at the Hirshhorn Museum. Kruger had filled the space with an installation of text that reflected the idea of democracy, power and belief.

Even though I do not find this work particularly intellectually challenging, I find it uses the principle of conceptualism very cleverly. This installation is as if the viewers are walking into her mind and all her thoughts, opinions and questions bombard the viewers mind.

The only way the viewer can interpret the work is by reading it. Once the words are read and in the mind of the viewer, that is the moment when the work is successful in its existence.

i find words are very telepathic and I find this work telepathic.

If there was no “Reader” the work wouldn’t’t exist as its purpose, to get a thought across.

I find this is not an expressive piece of Art, in the sense of being from an interpretation of an idea. I feel it is to the point, straight to the idea. Which is exactly the sort of thing I would like to achieve in my work.


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