The post-political mood fractured by the late 2010s across Europe

Evidence

By the close of the 2010s, Tillmans’s world looked disturbingly different. He had begun to photograph Black Lives Matter protests and refugee camps. His Instagram page filled with European flags and snippets of protest speeches—gray, monochrome images, quite unlike the motley palette of his Love series. Tillmans even became involved in mainstream politics, designing a series of posters in 2016 for the campaign to safeguard the United Kingdom’s membership in the European Union. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 35

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Tillmans’ shift from Love series to protest photography instantiates the pivot from postpolitics to the politicized 2010s.