Some contemporary artists take moral risks in order to confront an audience with what they think is the truth. Some even use other people as part of their works. We discuss artworks from the third chapter of Ways of Looking: Thomas Hirschhorn’s Touching Reality (2013) and Santiago Sierra’s 160 cm Line Tattooed on 4 People (2000). Note that these works, especially Hirshhorn’s, contain graphic and disturbing images. (Intro: Traveling in Your Mind (edited) by Loyalty Freak Music, from The Free Music Archive, CC0 1.0 Universal License. Outro: 6.6.05 (edited) by BOPD, from The Free Music Archive, CC BY 3.0 license.)
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