Purple Magazine
— F/W 2014 issue 22
Barbara Kruger
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That’s the Way We Do It, installation view, first floor, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, April 16 – July 3, 2011, copyright Kunsthaus Bregenz
on new forms of activism
interview by ALEXIS DAHAN
All works copyright BARBARA KRUGER and courtesy MARY BOONE GALLERY, New York
ALEXIS DAHAN — For the past 30 years, some of your work has publicly addressed political threats to individual freedom. How do you pick your battles?
BARBARA KRUGER — I don’t feel I’m in a battle. I’m not battling. I try to make work about how we are to one another: how we love one another, how we fear one another, how, perhaps, we hate one another, how we touch one another, how we escape one another, how we desire one another — all that stuff! And to me it’s an attempt to create a kind of free-floating anthropology, a sort of…