Untitled (Detail from 1978-2000)

Robert Gober

2000–2001 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

Robert Gober works primarily in sculpture, installations, and photography. He is perhaps best known for his delicate, ghostly hand crafted versions of domestic fixtures, such as drains, beds, doors, and sinks. Through these uncanny replicas, Gober invests mass produced objects with personal meaning—the private, unruly desires and memories of the individual. This image appeared in the book (his first in the genre) that Gober created to accompany his installation representing the United States at the 2000 Venice Biennale. In it, the artist interweaves his own journey to New York in 1978 as a young gay man with the toxic fallout of homophobic recrimination that accompanied the murder of the Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard twenty years later.

Artist

Robert Gober

Date

2000–2001

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Purchase, Charina Foundation Inc. Gift, 2002