Barbara Kruger is an American collage artist, famous for her layered photographs. Her style is rooted in her work in graphic design. Her style consists of layering found photographs from existing sources with "pithy and aggressive text that involves the viewer in the struggle for power and control that her captions speak to". IMuch of her text questions the viewer on feminism, classicism, consumerism, and individual autonomy and desire, although her black-and-white images are culled from the mainstream magazines that sell the very ideas she is disputing. Kruger's work has appeared in museums, galleries worlwide, as well as on billboards, buscards, posters, a public park, a train station platform in Strasbourg, France, and in other public commissions.
I titled this post Mirrors Mirrors, because it seems to me that Kruger's work is a containment of the world's frustrations and petty obsessions as well. Much more than just expressing her own creativity, Kruger rather portrays in a mirror like form what already exists out there.
"You are not yourself / Barbara Kruger, 1981, The Met"
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