Your Comfort Is My Silence

Barbara kruger your comfort is my silence 1981 this work shows a man telling the veiwer to be quiet.

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In 1981 barbara kruger produced the image your comfort is my silence. This work shows a man telling the viewer to be quiet. Much of her work consists of black and white photographs overlaid with declarative captions in white on red futura bold oblique or helvetica ultra condensed.

The man is trying to supress the women viewer by saying that if women stay quiet.