"The Globe Shrinks"
The most recent of Kruger's works have been displayed in the form of video installations.
i couldn't find the video footage of this installation but i found a description;
"It is essentially a non-narrative collage of bad jokes, vague conversations, written messages to the viewer, and short vignettes, all relayed at lightning speed on the four different walls of the gallery, forcing the viewer to shift her head furiously in order to take it all in".
Relying on the interpretation of this source my first impression of this is that Kruger is trying to address the overwhelming busyness and unsophisticated aspects of the world today. The use of displaying the images at flashing speed gives the impression she wants the work to be taken in as if you were being brain washed.
In the majority of Kruger's work her ideas and concepts are displayed with quite a negative statement or approach to make the audience question their role or place on this planet. I feel this is one of those works that doesn't sugar coat anything, revealing the harsh reality of the new age ignorant generation. "The Globe Shrinks"
Quotes and images sourced from;
http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/barbara-kruger-sprueth-magers-berlin/2130
hey I totally agree with all that stuff you wrote about the video installation. It's like, all about how people are super busy these days, and about everything is super fast, and that people don't really have the peace and calm anymore to sit quietly with a book and a cup of tea like they used to do in those big houses in Britain a hundred years ago, you know, the ones with the gardens. I guess Krueger's work is expressing the idea that life is kinda like a pulsing strobe light of vivid discombobulated sensations or something.
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