Gallery 202

This gallery features powerful works that exemplify Barbara Kruger’s engagement with the language of power. Untitled (Nuestra gente es mejor que la vuestra)—“Our people is better than your people”—, printed across the floor in bold red and white, exposes the violence behind certain political rhetoric. The globe shrinks (for those who own it)—a quote from theorist Homi Bhabha—wrapping the gallery’s skylight, critiques global inequality through a site-specific intervention. Pledge, Will, Vow, a three-channel video, dissects ceremonial language, transforming words like “allegiance” and “richer” into volatile alternatives. At the back of the gallery, Connect lays bare the tension between intimacy and alienation in our hyper-mediated world. Across media and scale, Kruger invites us to question the ideological weight of the words we live by.