Stefan Brüggemann’s artistic practice takes the form of painting, sculpture, drawing and large-scale installations. He often uses text in this works, as conceptual sentences, declarations or slogans that call to mind publicity and marketing strategies. Through words the artist often finds a way of introducing a social and cultural critique, probing the linguistic contradictions that inhabit language and therefore everyday life. In the artist’s own words, “SOMETIMES I THINK SOMETIMES I DON’T is the most human and personal work that I’ve ever done. […] It is almost as if the artist was there, saying something very intimate, almost a confidence, and at the same time as if he was completely absent.” Brüggemann finds in this utterance an example of a sincere declaration that reveals a profoundly human nature: one behaves rationally in some situations but irrationally in others.

Image: Courtesy of the artist