Martha Rosler

Martha Rosler

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Martha Rosler's most recognizable work is her photomontages, collaging the domestic lives of women, war and politics. She has also done some video art "Semiotics Of The Kitchen" 

Martha Rosler started off as a painter and had an interest in photography at the same time. She started thinking about how you could have "..... on one page you could have a picture of some terrible atrocity of war and on the next page they'll be an ad for a sofa, and i got the idea to put them together...." - Martha Rosler Cut and Paste Video 

This is how she got the idea for her photomontages by looking at newspapers and how they can have adverts next to images of war and death. The contrast between lives and culture. She is completely outraged by war and she started montaging about the war in Afghanistan like when she did work about the war in vietnam. She is saying that we are deluding ourselves with these adverts of everyday things and how perfect and beautiful everything is at home and yet we invade other homes and destroy them. She says "... we are responsible for this, this is us telling ourselves that life is beautiful at home and this is what we do abroad." - Martha Rosler Cut And Paste Video. 

 

Link To Cut And Paste Video