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Outernet, The Now Building, Centre Point, London, UK. 4th March, 2024. Serpentine and Outernet Arts present a digital artwork Silent Writings, 2009/2024 by American artist Barbara Kruger – exploring how we communicate and connect with global events and one another. Silent Writings will be presented free every Monday 4 March – 22 April, 6-9pm at Outernet's vast 23,000 square feet of wrap-around 16k screens. The collaboration aims to inspire and engage the public with free and accessible contemporary art on display in the largest digital exhibition space in Europe. The piece weaves images and words in an attempt to engage issues of control, power and dominance. Kruger incorporates her own words alongside quotes from writers and philosophers including Aimé Césaire, Goethe, Thomas Mann and Mary Therese McCarthy. These quotes touch on themes of violence, political modes of operation and spectatorship. Kruger manipulates selected words, enlarging or removing them to highlight their meanings and create new ones. Opposing terms like contact/isolation, order/horror, stupid/clever become fluid and interchangeable..Silent Writings connects with the artist's latest exhibition Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You., currently on display at Serpentine South Gallery, and is Kruger's first solo institutional show in London in over twenty years. The exhibition continues until the 17th March, 2024., Credit:MALCOLM PARK / Avalon (KEYSTONE/AVALON/MALCOLM PARK / Avalon)