Beyoncé for Garage Magazine (another picture + interview)
Quote:
Talking to Neville Wakefield in GARAGE Nº4, Urs Fischer muses on the omnipresent significance of order, communicative transcendence in relation to art, and an artist’s sovereignty over decision-making. “You have to rely on yourself as the one and only judge,” Fischer explained to Wakefield, “Did you make the right decision? […] You are the only lawmaker there. You’re more than the judge and the jury; you’re the parliament and the judicial branch. You’re the separation of powers, and you’re one power.” There’s an element of congruence in what Fischer said and in Beyoncé’s unmethodical methodology: she is “the lawmaker” within her career – every twist, turn, propounder and execution is at the behest of Bey.
Beyoncé’s recent track is akin to what Fischer says: what the musician did with Formation was to spark discourse, to transcend the flaccidity of direct, verbal justifications and “communicate somewhere other than in the things you can explain verbally,” stepping away from pop-culture’s vacuous existence.
