"For us, the idea of having a work that has contradictions is very important—when, in affirming something, it includes itself and attacks itself. How can you put together all of these things that have nothing to do with each other? You use glue! Glue can be an idea, a word. You can use an ideological glue."
"The Music of Regret (Meryl)" (2006)
"The Music of Regret (Meryl)," 2006
Flex print, 40 x 40 inches.
© Laurie Simmons, courtesy the artist and Salon 94, New York.
Flex print, 40 x 40 inches.
© Laurie Simmons, courtesy the artist and Salon 94, New York.
"I decided that the puppet of myself would become a real woman...it would have been too uncomfortable to think about Meryl Streep portraying me in the movie. So once she claimed the part, I stopped thinking about the part as representing me or my life...Once I got over that, she became the character, it wasn’t about me anymore."
- Laurie Simmons
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