Ex-Papaya

1993, printed 2000

Not on view

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.

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Title: Ex-Papaya
Artist: Gabriel Orozco (Mexican, born Jalapa Enriquez, 1962)
Date: 1993, printed 2000
Medium: Silver dye bleach print
Dimensions: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in. )
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchase, Gary and Sarah Wolkowitz Gift and funds from various donors, 2001
Object Number: 2001.301
Rights and Reproduction: © Gabriel Orozco
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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