Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger puts her art out to play in the constant traffic of consumer messages - on posters, signs, matchboxes, postcards, placards, billboards, museum walls, even on the bodies of passers-by in the form of t-shirts or shopping bags.
Immobility, particularly the immobility of women, is a recurrent theme in Kruger's work. Her blown-up, severely cropped photographs of women and their short accompanying texts subvert the meanings of both image and text in order to destabilize the positioning of women as object.