Untitled (“You Make Me”, 1997)

The Tate Gallery, London (United Kingdom)

Enamel on aluminum.

The phrase “You Make Me” used by the mature artist for the large (almost three meters high) picture can have two opposite meanings. On the one hand, this can be a statement of coercion; on the other hand, it means the fullness of the personality of the creator. Wool uses texts from various sources (movies, books, articles) for his work, but, at the same time, unexpected intervals between words and letters or their repetition lead to a break in the meaning. Since the mid-1980s, the author’s works usually consisted of either black inscriptions on a white background or abstract decorative images. In this work, words do not violate the ability to read them correctly as the simplest sentence. The idea is precisely in the philosophy of being: is it a statement about someone’s strength or that people and circumstances are trying to “remake” a person?