Adrian Piper Quotes & Sayings

Racism is a visual pathology. — Adrian Piper

One reason for making and exhibiting a work is to induce a reaction or change in the viewer ... In this sense, the work as such is nonexistent except when it functions as a medium of change between the artist and viewer. — Adrian Piper

My work is an act of communication, and it's important to me the way what I assert lands, and where it lands within someone who sees it. On the other hand, I also recognize fully and live by the principle that once the work leaves my studio, I cannot control the effects it has. — Adrian Piper

I am black. What are you going to do about it? — Adrian Piper