Andrea Fraser
Galerie Nagel Draxel | Antwerp
“I’ve always been very ambivalent about my field, and I made a kind of career out of that . . . ambivalence, but recently, it’s gotten extremely difficult. . . .” In the right-hand channel of her most recent DVD installation, Andrea Fraser is projected at life size and repeatedly bursts into tears. She speaks about feelings of failure, her “long history of commitment to certain principles,” desire for recognition despite her own privileged position, feelings of envy and shame, and admittedly all-too-indecisive rejection of the marketplace and its logic of injustice. Alternately, Fraser is also