Barbara Kruger's Untitled (2Kiss) is a signed limited edition screenprint on mirrored polished steel — one of the most formally striking works in her print practice. A master of text-based art, Kruger reduces the work to a single word: KISS, set in her signature red Futura Bold against a reflective steel ground framed by a red circle — an instruction, an invitation, a command. The mirror surface ensures that every viewer sees themselves in the work — implicated, addressed, unable to remain a neutral observer. This is Kruger at her most distilled.

The editioned artwork was generously donated by Barbara Kruger on the occasion of her major solo exhibition Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You. at Serpentine South, London (2024) — her first institutional solo show in the city in over twenty years, previously presented at MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, and LACMA. That exhibition, which took Kruger's iconic artworks and reanimated them as immersive video installations across the Serpentine building and London's public realm, marked a defining moment in the reassessment of her five-decade career.

Kruger has described her art as being "about how we are to one another." In Untitled (2Kiss), that question is answered — or asked again — with characteristic economy. Issued in an edition of 300 plus 10 artist's proofs, the text-based multiple is stamped and numbered.