Barbara Kruger works with images and words, revealing and questioning thoughts that are socially rooted in power dynamics. Since the mid-1960s, she has been pairing her written work with found images in black and white, which she adds red and black writing onto. Using these images, she tries to criticise the machinations of capitalism, with particular attention given to far-from-fair practices of the political game and to urgent reflections on the themes of gender, which all too often is addressed in disingenuous, conventional, or superficial ways. Kruger’s art includes photomontages and video and sound projects as well as public art.
