"There are no tyrannies that would not try to limit art, because they can see the power of art. Art can tell the world things that cannot be shared otherwise. It is art that conveys feelings."
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine
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Kerry James Marshall
(c)image: Courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, NY, and Koplin Del Rio, CA
The Art of Hanging Pictures, 2002
The Art of Hanging Pictures (2002) is an interactive work that consists of a series of framed photographs in a variety of sizes, large and small, which are hung at various heights and angles across a wall. The images depict such things as empty streets and sports fields, emergency vehicles, a brick wall and a kitsch swan ornament, which are all perhaps images related to the life and environment of the woman and child portrayed in the largest photograph. The work deliberately possesses a fragmentary character, and visitors are free to rearrange the photographs to make their own compositions and narratives.
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