ABSTRACT
Barbara Kruger’s exhibition We Won’t Play Nature to Your Culture and Victor Burgin’s book Hotel Latone are different kinds of work that at first it seems almost arbitrary to discuss them together, or just a simple exploitation of the fact that both use words and photographs in juxtaposition. Burgin and Kruger share a concern with spectatorship and the act of looking, the point at which the psychodynamics of voyeurism and the power relations of masculinity and femininity can affect a work of art. The Kruger and Burgin works are about desire and sexual difference and understanding of both under patriarchy. Kruger takes her images beyond demand and refuses the ‘desire and wait for’ in Irigaray’s ironic and laconic comment.
