On a trip to London in the summer I found this piece of 'graffiti' on the northern line travelling from my friends flat in Angel to Waterloo to visit the tate modern. It reminded me of Barbara Kruger's piece 'Don't be a Jerk' - a simple message among the complexities of city life.
Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist. Much of her work consists of black and white photographs overlaid with declarative captions. The phrases on her works often include pronouns such as 'you', 'yours', 'I', 'we' and 'they', and often include reference go cultural constructions of power, identity and sexuality. Much of krugers work challenges the viewer. She develops her ideas on a computer then later transfers them onto into billboard size images.
Feminism, consumerism, and individual autonomy and desire. Frequently appropriating images from mainstream magazines and using her bold phrases to frame them in a new context. Kruger has said that "I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are and who we aren't". In my own work I have been influenced by Krugers bold statement text and societal comments.
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