Indirect Directness: Barbara Kruger Interviewed by Osman Can Yerebakan
There was chaos in Barbara Kruger’s recent exhibition at David Zwirner in New York City. Puzzles collapsed and reemerged with a phoenixlike determination; ghostly voices lingered in electronic echoes; metallic sounds permeated the white cube with their industrial clicks. From speakers outside the gallery, a man’s repetitious “Hello” welcomed visitors. The interior space was stripped down to words’ immediacy using Kruger’s Futura Bold Italic typeface. The iconic “I Shop Therefore I Am” was expanded to “I Sext Therefore I Am,” and there were newcomers like the short but catchy “Trolled.”
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