Hi,
Hope everyone’s printmaking has been and is going really well. I’ve just been researching about Barbara Kruger, and found her use of captions and their relationships with photography really inspiring in storytelling.
I found the interview available on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xi9qQb2SHU really useful, to hear Kruger from her own point-of-view and perspectives. The interview is also from 2016, where she talks about her works’ “progeniety” and new forms of life and meaning really interesting.
The interplay between her work is really interesting, and this lineage takes on another continuum, storyline and layers of meaning. Especially as some of her works are from the 80s, and when forms of print such as magazine were really dominant, there is are renewed, additional layers of meanings in many of her works today.
For instance, Kruger’s work where she uses an adaptation or modification of an idiosyntric adage into the caption, “pictures say more than a thousand words” takes on an expansion of meanings in today’s over-saturated media landscapes, especially on social media. As Kruger says herself in the 2016 interview, even reading is becoming sometimes an archaic mode of communication.
