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Can we say that a kind of grammatical chasm exists between the form of the proposition and that of the question? Is there a kind of world, as it were, of the question, whose difference, verging on the suspicion of a kind of lack, sets it in perpetual opposition to that other world, that of the statement? [...] And when it comes to actions, are there those that one could designate as interrogative? And what about objects?

Robert Morris: "Professional Rules." Critical Inquiry, 23 (Winter 1997).
  

 


Ben Vautier


"Qui vous dit qu'il n'est
pas beau ce tableau?" – 1961


"C'est beau
n'est-ce pas?"


"Est-ce bien de l'art?" – 2005



Mario Merz

"Che fare?"

1968




Jenny Holzer


     

  


"What urge will save us
now that sex won't?"

1983, 1985

"When you place your hand on the Bible,
do you think about eternal questions:
why are we here instead of nothing?"

2004


Barbara Kruger

Untitled

1991


Look for the moment when pride becomes contempt.
Who is free to choose? Who is beyond the law?
Who is healed? Who is housed?
Who speaks? Who is silenced?
Who salutes longest? Who prays loudest?
Who dies first? Who laughs last?