
Picture/Readings (I)
A black and white photograph is overlaid with bold, confrontational text in Kruger's signature style, using the tension between image and language to challenge power, identity, and the politics of representation. The artist's custom frame extends the work beyond the photograph itself, implicating the viewer within the piece's critical dialogue. Kruger's strategic pairing of picture and reading invites an interrogation of how meaning is constructed through visual and linguistic systems.
- Medium
- black and white photograph and text, in artist's frame
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Under the Influence
March 7, 2014
Estimate: $25,000 – $35,000
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