Theoretical Understanding Quotes by Julie Mehretu

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• The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel…
• The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and…
• The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I…
• I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark…
• Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.
• I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.
• I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.
• That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that…
• When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do…
• You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are…
• I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the…
• People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole…

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