JOB DESCRIPTION

 

your work is about:

 

the frame and the confines of articulated space

 

the edge and the tension of a peripheral locator

 

color and the signature of saturation

 

light and the creation of the illusory site

 

surface and the dictates of the forearm

 

placement and the expository ground

 

formula and the elegant solution

 

décor and the belated recognition of the practical arts

 

material and the physical embrace

 

figures and the rhetoric of the real

 

structure and the puncture of space

 

Buildings and the direction of task

 

dislocation and the subversion of the habitual

 

the arena and the business of men

 

opacity and the exhaustion of social life

 

desire and the prolongation of stasis

 

shopping and the image of perfection

 

utopia and the abandonment of context

 

sex and the collapse of the closet

 

commentary and the announcement of the additional

 

audience and the scrutiny of women

 

visual splicing and the resonance of the cut

 

naming and loosened singularities

 

transparency and the desire for rest

 

voyeurism and the long shot

 

hooliganism and the lure of the picaresque

 

privilege and the tyranny of exclusion

 

fashion and the imperialism of garments

 

broadcast and the short conversation

 

narrative and the gathering of incidents

 

dreams and the sliding of meaning

 

memory and the defeat of total recall

 

trauma and the sound that only dogs can hear

 

disease and the accumulation of profit

 

property and the feel of value

 

race and the fear of difference

 

money and the velocity of power

 

analysis and the maintenance of the laboratory

 

neutrality and the dealing of the double

 

argument and hand to hand combat

 

language and the rubbing of skin

 

quotation and the rhythm of stacked bodies

 

pleasure and the proper name

 

-1984 Barbara Kruger