Public Artwork
Untitled (It)
Location:
Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON, M5T 1G4, Canada
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Artwork creator(s):
Kruger, Barbara
Text author(s):
Kruger, Barbara
Installation year:
2010
Remarks on location:
On the facade of the Art Gallery of Ontario
Description:
The artwork consists of a series of found images and statements.
Text of the artwork:
LOVE IT
SHOVE IT
PRAISE IT
PLEASE IT
DOUBT IT
SHAME IT
BLAME IT
KISS IT
BUY IT
BELIEVE IT
Text theme:
Imperatives imposed on the public by advertisers
Artwork theme:
Explores how photography informs and transforms human behaviour, especially via the medium's connections to mass media, advertising, consumerism and propaganda.
How we are to one another
History:
The installation responds to CONTACT’s theme for 2010, “Pervasive Influence,” which considers how photography informs and transforms human behaviour, especially via the medium’s connections to mass media, advertising, consumerism and propaganda.
May 1 - August 30, 2010
Event date(s):
2010 Note(s):
“I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are and who we aren’t.”
Barbara Kruger
Artist's biography:
Barbara Kruger Document(s):
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