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192103:

Felix Gonzalez-Torres
“Nobody owns me”

ugh i can’t find any detailed information about this work. anyways i’m trying to use this work as a direct reference on branding and identity for my sculpture but i’m still not sure on how should i do it.

yays found some more info:
“It is 1994 and a young woman is walking down the road. she is wearing a white T-shirt, devoid of any decoration save in green letters, on the back below the collar, the words ‘Nobody owns me’. What is odd about this? Visually it is not immediately striking, but inquisitive mind will soon start to find irritating or thought provoking. Normally what we see on the back of a T-shirt, if anything, is the name of the manufacturer, but instead we see this elliptical message. Is it not a truism? of course, nobody owns  us: we are all free people. but then, could we not argue that by buying any commercial product displaying the brand name we have been named, captured and even possessed by the advertising and marketing of that product: we have become a Mitsubishi man or a Gucci girl. This particular T-shirt is a refusal of that type of surreptitious ownership. In an age of greater and greater state surveillance and control, it is an affirmation by that person that their body belongs to them and no one else.”