Fallujah - McKnight Foundation

Artist’s Statement
SIAH ARMAJANI | 2010
What I wanted to write has been written by many
others. The alchemy of my work comes from the
base metal of others.
“Art does not express ideology but produces it as an object, makes it visible.”
—Louis Althusser
“We have to rethink what the political function of culture would be in a
situation where everything is cultural.”
—Fredric Jameson
“I have always been
—Pablo Picasso
“There is a picture by Voltaire of despair—the
total despair of a shipwrecked man who is swimming
in the waves and struggling and squirming for his
life when he receives the message that this ocean in
which he finds himself does not have a shore…”—Ernst Bloch