Barbara Kruger's art

I was at the Broad in LA this weekend and came across post-modernist and feminist artist Barbara Kruger. Highly recommend you take a trip to the museum to see (as Kruger's works are part of the standing collection). In general, Kruger addressed media and politics colloquially: sensational, authoritative, direct, simple, etc. By doing this, as other post-modernists, Kruger fused commercialism and art, suggesting everything can be art and it can be purchased. This piece was produced for the Women's March on Washington in support of reproductive freedom considering. As you can see, the women's face illustrates a stark divide (the face has a negative versus positive / realist exposure, it's literally split, and it's obscured by the text). Thus, the piece protests the reality that the socially (including legally and culturally) constructed world, specifically in light of Roe v. Wade, controlled women. Thus, bodies were transformed into battlegrounds, one to be fought.

Here's a link (https://www.artic.edu/artworks/121289/have-me-feed-me-hug-me-love-me-need-me) to the piece I wanted to post about, but unfortunately the blog couldn't upload the video I took of it. However, I highly encourage you take a look. It demonstrates the hypocrisy and unfair standards society has towards women. The words of psychological disorders such as "psychotic" and "paranoid" contrast to newborns, capturing the double-standard society places on women to have on children despite the way they are labeled and how they can be treated. By using an advertising format for this content, Kruger attests to how women are socially constructed. Pop art also involves a consumerist theme given its style and format, and considering Kruger is a politically charged post-modernist, I'd encourage you to think about what degree do we "consume" and productize women, and then perhaps people more broadly.