High and Low 1994

Curator: David Salle's "High and Low" is a collision of imagery, a real postmodern potpourri if you ask me. What strikes you first about it? Editor: A sense of unease, actually. The composition feels… unresolved, like a fragmented narrative where consumerism and alienation crash into each other. Curator: Right? Salle throws everything at the canvas – snippets of domestic scenes, a car, gloves, abstract shapes – it’s like flipping through channels, a visual echo of late 20th-century information overload. Editor: And that title, "High and Low," suggests a critique of cultural hierarchies, blurring the lines between supposedly sophisticated and base imagery. It begs the question, who defines what's "high" or "low" anyway? Curator: Maybe Salle's saying it’s all just stuff, all just images vying for our attention. I find its open endedness liberating, personally. Editor: Perhaps. For me, it's a stark reflection of a society grappling with its own excesses and contradictions. Definitely a lot to unpack. Curator: Absolutely. A provocative piece, one that stays with you long after you've walked away.