The artist Barbara Kruger powerfully engages directly with viewers through her distinctive visual language. Kruger utilises images, text, and technology as tools of communication to reveal and question established power structures and social constructs. An exhibition of recent works runs at David Zwirner, New York until August 12. It features nine large-scale video works and installations, as well as sound installations and vinyl wallpaper, that not only reaffirm the cultural prominence of Kruger’s iconic visual language but also reveal the radical inventiveness and lasting relevance of her incisive work with pictures and words.
‘Untitled (Our people are better than your people)’ – first shown as part of the ‘World Morality’ show at Kunsthalle Basel – uses language to thematise the powerful influence exercised upon human identity by the media and politics.
