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Untitled (It’s a small world but not if you have to clean it), 1990.

Barbara Kruger’s works feature juxtapositions of images and texts that address cultural constructions of power, identity, and sexuality. Since 1980, the artist’s work has developed a highly recognizable oeuvre of black, white, and red photo-text montages. Her large-scale photographic silkscreen Untitled (It’s a small world but not if you have to clean it) features an image of a woman peering through a magnifying glass. Her empowered gaze, which seems to be directed right at the viewer, elicits questions about who cleans up after whom that extend from more personal domestic and professional realms to the broader context of social, political, and economic issues.