Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative. - Barbara Kruger

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It's the time of the night I like best, when most people are asleep and it feels like the world belongs completely to my friends and me, as though nothing exists apart from out little circle: everywhere else is darkness and quiet.

Barbara Kruger

Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.

Ironed, Made, Real, Representative, Seemingly, Technology

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I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.

Become, Determine, Pictures And Words, Want, Who We Are, Work

I see my work as a series of attempts to ruin certain representations and to welcome a female spectator into the audience of men. If this work is considered incorrect, all the better, for my attempts aim to undermine that singular pontificating male voice-over which correctly instructs our pleasures and histories or lack of them.

Histories, Incorrect, Males, Men, Voice

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

Art, Attention, Doe, Expression, Language, Short

GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU'LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.

Attention, Brain, Give, Giving, Hair, Thousand

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

Art, Making, Mean, Musical, Textual

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