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Jennifer Moon โ€” I ๐Ÿ’œ Karen Barad
Jennifer Moon

I ๐Ÿ’œ Karen Barad

2020

A vibrant declaration printed in inkjet on paper, "I ๐Ÿ’œ Karen Barad" distills Jennifer Moon's ongoing engagement with feminist theory, quantum physics, and the politics of love into a single, disarmingly direct image. The work takes its title from the influential physicist and philosopher Karen Barad, whose theory of agential realism proposes that matter and meaning are inseparable, that the world is not made of things but of phenomena produced through entanglement. Moon absorbs this framework not as academic citation but as lived conviction, and the result is a piece that feels simultaneously like a protest sign, a devotional object, and a conceptual provocation. Moon has long situated personal transformation and collective liberation at the center of her practice, weaving together strands of critical theory, revolutionary politics, and autobiographical sincerity in ways that resist easy categorization. This work exemplifies that sensibility, using the vernacular language of affection, the heart emoji rendered without irony, to assert intellectual solidarity and political kinship. The modest dimensions of the piece, roughly 45 by 28 centimeters, concentrate its energy rather than dilute it, and the inkjet medium carries a democratic, reproducible quality that suits the work's populist spirit. Signed by the artist, "I ๐Ÿ’œ Karen Barad" offers collectors a concise yet expansive entry point into one of the more genuinely idiosyncratic voices working at the intersection of theory, activism, and contemporary art.

Medium
Inkjet on paper
Sheet
Signed
Yes

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Jennifer Moon, I ๐Ÿ’œ Karen Barad, 2020

A vibrant declaration printed in inkjet on paper, "I ๐Ÿ’œ Karen Barad" distills Jennifer Moon's ongoing engagement with feminist theory, quantum physics, and the politics of love into a single, disarmingly direct image. The work takes its title from the influential physicist and philosopher Karen Barad, whose theory of agential realism proposes that matter and meaning are inseparable, that the world is not made of things but of phenomena produced through entanglement. Moon absorbs this framework not as academic citation but as lived conviction, and the result is a piece that feels simultaneously like a protest sign, a devotional object, and a conceptual provocation. Moon has long situated personal transformation and collective liberation at the center of her practice, weaving together strands of critical theory, revolutionary politics, and autobiographical sincerity in ways that resist easy categorization. This work exemplifies that sensibility, using the vernacular language of affection, the heart emoji rendered without irony, to assert intellectual solidarity and political kinship. The modest dimensions of the piece, roughly 45 by 28 centimeters, concentrate its energy rather than dilute it, and the inkjet medium carries a democratic, reproducible quality that suits the work's populist spirit. Signed by the artist, "I ๐Ÿ’œ Karen Barad" offers collectors a concise yet expansive entry point into one of the more genuinely idiosyncratic voices working at the intersection of theory, activism, and contemporary art.

Medium
Inkjet on paper
Dimensions
sheet: 45.2 x 28.2 cm
Year
2020
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
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