Is Art Necessary? Why?

Year: 2002-2005
Type: installation
Material: prints, texts; various dimensions

I was interested in communication problems between the world of contemporary art and the wider public. Contemporary art often blames the public for its conservatism, but it is maybe contemporary art with its different strategies that is inaccessible and incomprehensible.

The title was selected from a list of questions that I asked my friends and acquaintances. In a questionnaire I asked people how much they follow contemporary art and what they think of it. The answers that I used are from the people who don’t follow contemporary art, but have some general opinion about art and what it should be about.

I used works of well-known contemporary artists as an illustration of the statements (people who wrote these statements didn’t actually see these works – their statements are not directly about the work).