Martha
is an American artist, famous for her “cut and paste” photomontages.
Her
works consist of compositions made from bits of multiple images placed together
in a contrast, to highlight some issue.
She used to work with paint, but she says that she moved onto her photomontages after looking at newspapers and magazines and how “on the one page you could have a picture of some terrible atrocity of war and on the next page there would be an ad for a sofa, and I got the idea to put them together” (NYTimes, 2008).
She used to work with paint, but she says that she moved onto her photomontages after looking at newspapers and magazines and how “on the one page you could have a picture of some terrible atrocity of war and on the next page there would be an ad for a sofa, and I got the idea to put them together” (NYTimes, 2008).
Her works highlight
how we try to block out the bad things with advertisements and other trivial
rubbish.
Such
as this image, which brings together an idealised living room that looks like
it could be bought straight out of a catalogue with scenes from war, in an
attempt to bring these horrific happenings into the home where people lock
themselves in and try to forget that we ever do anything like this. But
ignoring it and forgetting it wont solve the problem
Reference
list:
NYTimes, (2008) Cut and Past: Martha Rosler. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/09/05/arts/rosler-audioss/index.html (Accessed 23rd April 2012)
NYTimes, (2008) Cut and Past: Martha Rosler. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/09/05/arts/rosler-audioss/index.html (Accessed 23rd April 2012)
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