Becoming an artist was a political choice. This does not mean that I make 'political art', or even 'political graphic art'. My choice was to refuse to make political art. I make art politically.

I do not think that art has a constituted centre; it's an open space. Art makes
things move and keeps thoughts moving; it decentralises.

Energy, yes! Quality, no!

[The street altars] are generic, but apply weakness implacably as a strategy.

Naiveté doesn't interest me, utopianism does; nostalgia doesn't interest me,
stupidity does.

I am not here to show that I am able to control things well. This is what I
call working politically.

Why am I an artist? Because I take a critical position toward how the world
looks and what the human situation is like today. My non-agreement gives me
energy to work.
- Thomas Hirschhorn¹

I find that I want to come to Hirschhorn's displays with an expectation that he has something specific to communicate, a particular point of view to share that I can take back to the world, hopefully better prepared to live. I want Hirschhorn to teach me something, to show me a new way of looking at things, or to give me a way to think about the world that intuitively makes sense of my experience. But he has no interest in something so straightforward. Instead he makes me encounter ignorance, a peculiar state of ignorance in the face of an onslaught of information. I walk away with a sense of my need for answers, for him to explain some possible solution or clear vantage point, which he deliberately refuses me. He refuses such