Entitlement
Kaitlyn krueger
“a critique of the prevalence of sexual aggression towards women, AFAB, and feminine-presenting people within the United States.”
— Artist, Kaitlyn Krueger
Kaitlyn Kreuger, Entitlement, Aiya
Kaitlyn Kreuger, Entitlement, Caprice
Kaitlyn Kreuger, Entitlement, Mahlia
ABOUT
Artist statement
“Entitlement” is a critique of the prevalence of sexual aggression towards women, AFAB, and feminine-presenting people within the United States. This body of work is about subverting the concept of a portrait, which is often about inviting the viewer into the subject’s life. Within this context, the viewer has to make the decision to intrude on the subject’s space and violate their safety. The artifacts remain as a sculptural memory of the violence done to the subjects.
Artist Process
Photographic portraits of these individuals and their living spaces are covered in a layer of wax and red paint. The final presentation of this project is a viewer-led interactive piece, where viewers are allowed to scratch off the cover with a variety of tools, revealing the portrait underneath. The act of the viewer and the artifact leftover serve as a visualization of the everyday violation and entitlement to women’s bodies.
“Challenging and insightful, timely and engaging.”— Diana Vallera
“this interactive work leaves the viewer implicated in a physically symbolic trespass of the people in the photographs and asks us to reconsider our complicity, individually and collectively, in a far reaching and ever pervasive social issue.” -Jonathan Michael Castillo
Meet the artist:
Kaityln Krueger
Kaitlyn Krueger (she/her) is a Chicago-based visual artist and writer. Her practice focuses on the nature of systems and social structures through interactive photographic pieces. She believes in the power of collaborating with her subjects, other artists, and viewers themselves. Through the transformation of images from static 2D pieces to interactive tactile artifacts, Kaitlyn seeks to create consumptive moments, tension, discomfort, and release. Kaitlyn graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a BA in Photography and has had her work showcased at the Hyde Park Art Center, the Hokin, and the Clara M. Eagle Gallery.
