Conflict and/or Resolution
Thomas Hirschhorn
Thomas Hirschhorn is a Swiss artist who is known for his sprawling works that transform traditional white cube spaces into absorbing environments tackling issues of critical theory, global politics, and consumerism. He engages the viewer through superabundance. Combining found imagery and texts, bound up in low-tech constructions of cardboard, foil, and packing tape, he props imagistic assaults in a DIY-fashion that correlates to the intellectual scavenging and sensory overload designed to simulate our own process of grappling with the excess of information in daily life. Created from the most basic everyday materials, his monumental works are concerned with issues of justice and injustice, power and powerlessness, and moral responsibility.http://www.arndtberlin.com/website/artist_1030
Hirschhorn confronts us with our out of control consumerism by assaulting us with over the top amounts of visual stimulation. Is there something you see as a glaring conflict? How can you best communicate the conflict? Do you prefer to focus on the potential resolutions to the conflicts you encounter?
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