Untitled
Gober creates sculpture, installations, and photography and 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, he invests mass-produced objects with personal meaning-the private, unruly desires and memories of the individual. A longtime admirer of Hitchcock, Gober is also master technician of suspenseful and disturbing imagery. In this photograph, what at first glance appears to be a common mousetrap set among some ferns is, upon closer examination, a human-scaled device that uncannily evokes the themes of contagion and control that run throughout the artist's work.
Artwork Details
- Title: Untitled
- Artist: Robert Gober (American, born Wallingford, Connecticut, 1954)
- Date: 1999
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: Image: 37.1 x 28.6 cm (14 5/8 x 11 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 50.4 x 40.6 cm (19 13/16 x 16 in.) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2000
- Object Number: 2000.334.1
- Rights and Reproduction: © Robert Gober
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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