"Looking at art can really help to show you that there's a different reality."
Artist Josephine Meckseper reflects on George Tooker's "Government Bureau" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.
About the Artist
Josephine Meckseper, born in Germany, uses commercial forms of presentation, such as vitrines, window displays, and magazines, to demonstrate inextricable influences of consumer culture on society.
Josephine Meckseper (German, born Lilienthal 1964)
Blow Up (Michelli), 2006
Body form (torso with undergarment), two plastic frames with two photos in each, leg form (calf high with sock), leg form (thigh high with stocking), round metal stand, toilet scrubber in holder, metal sculpture, 2 glass balls, double sided ENDLESS DEALS sign, clipstand, double sided color prints mounted on Sintra, double-sided C-print/silver gelatin print mounted on Sintra and unmounted silver gelatin print; 82 × 96 × 27 in. (208.3 × 243.8 × 68.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Stephen and Nan Swid Gift and The Cynthia Hazen Polsky Fund, 2014 (2014.297a–w) © Josephine Meckseper
