'The context of display is an important issue for art history because it colours our perception and informs our understanding of works of art.'
(Barker, Emma, Contemporary Cultures of Display, p.8)
This is to an extent true as it can be seen to elevate the artist to a position of the celebrity which in turn colours our perception of what we see when we look at art. With regards to this concept of celebrity, Gavin Turk appears to have taken a critical role in his artistic approach to that of the celebrity. At face value his work appears clever especially in regards to the Situationist critique below although referring to Badiou it is suggested that his work has become one in a process that Badiou reveals as an ego or narcissistic form of particularism i.e. it is no longer about the art but that of the artist, concealing the truth behind the art. In his attempt to restore the rights of an independent affirmation (to quote one of his 15 points) Badiou confers that:
'Art cannot be the expression of mere particularity, whether it be ethnic or "me-ist." It is the impersonal production of a truth addressed to all.'
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