Dog Circle

Gabriel Orozco

1995 · Silver dye bleach print · Photographs

Orozco’s work fluidly crosses traditional boundaries between photography, sculpture, drawing, video, and installation. Since the 1980s he has used the camera to document his own ephemeral sculptures (a pile of sand on a table, a shoebox in the snow, clay bearing the imprint of his hand) as well as to record the unexpected beauty of found objects or situations such as the half-moon sweep of a dog’s tail on a sandy concrete floor or a curled up potato bug. His photographs are remarkable for the regenerating effects they have on our perception—for the ways in which they enrich our subsequent encounters with reality and open our eyes to what is already there.

Artist

Gabriel Orozco

Date

1995

Medium

Silver dye bleach print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Purchase, Neuberger Berman Foundation Gift, 2004