Quotes About Recontextualization

One does not contemplate it like a picture. The idea of contemplation disappears completely. Simply take note that it's a bottle rack, or that it's a bottle rack that has changed its destination... It's not the visual question of the readymade that counts; it's the fact that it exists, even.

I'm so interested in taking tropes from other movies and putting them on something where it doesn't belong.

It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to.

A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

Confederate statues belong in a historical museum, not in a place of honor.

All the familiar things were getting different meanings.

This relocation of the picture raises an important issue when looking at works of art – quite often they are no longer in their original location, and we see them as part of a historical sequence