Untitled

1988

Not on view

Returned to lender

This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.

Although Robert Gober is not often thought of as a photographer, his conceptual practice has long depended on a camera. From the time of his first solo show in 1984 Gober has documented temporal projects in hundreds of photographs, and today many of his site-specific installations survive as images. His photography resists classification, seeming to split the difference between archival record and independent artwork. Here, across three frames, flimsy white dresses advance and recede into a deserted wood. Gober sewed the garments from fabric printed by the painter Christopher Wool in the course of a related collaboration. Seen together, Gober’s staged photographs record an ephemeral intervention in an unwelcoming, almost fairy-tale landscape.

Artwork Details

Overview

Exhibition History

Title: Untitled
Artist: Robert Gober (American, born Wallingford, Connecticut, 1954)
Date: 1988
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 6 1/2 × 9 7/16 in. (16.5 × 24 cm)
Framed: 13 × 16 in. (33 × 40.6 cm)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Promised Gift of Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary
Curatorial Department: Photographs