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Slides of a Changing Painting
Robert Gober American
Not on view
For a period of about a year, Gober repeatedly painted and photographed the same small board. He covered its surface, roughly eleven by fourteen inches, with motifs such as pipes, drains, landscapes, and the human chest. From the thousands of slides he produced, Gober selected eighty-nine to create the "memoir" Slides of a Changing Painting. The images, many of which address the themes of metamorphosis, indeterminacy, and sexual difference, record the transformation of his panel and reanimate the process of painting. Slides of a Changing Painting replaces the single finished object with a series of dematerialized images, all absent and none more authoritative than another.
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