London Garage Sale

Martha Rosler, London Garage Sale (2005) Insitute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London "It is easy to state that a work of art is a commodity. It is much more difficult to determine which commodities are works of art.' Boris Groys ... Garage Sale, with its reference to the status of the art work, art history and art audiences, is interested in examining art as a fetishised object and commodity. It is also a representation of a subjective history and a way of thinking, and it works as a potent metaphor for personal and social relations — especially given its genesis within the highly politicised context of the women’s movement in the 1970s."