Executed in 1982/1992.

An excellent example of Kruger's early "paste-up" explorations of text and image, "Untitled (How come only the unborn have the right to life?)" presents Kruger's masterful transformation of the language of advertising into powerful, potent juxtapositions. A rarely seen early collage, "Untitled" offers a unique view of Kruger's intricate, hand-assembled works. Used to combat the rise of the "pro-life" agenda and to draw upon the contradictions it presents, "Untitled" fuses the ghostly image of a woman's face with the sentence "How come only the unborn have the right to life?".

This work was included in the exhibition "Barbara Kruger: Pre-digital" at Skarstedt Gallery in New York, and is reproduced in the accompanying catalog.