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| Robert Gober American, born 1954 The Subconscious Sink 1985 plaster, wood, steel, wire, lath, paint Collection Walker Art Center Clinton and Della Walker Acquistion Fund and Jerome Foundation Purchase Fund for Emerging Artists, 1985 |
In all of his carefully made sink sculptures, Robert Gober changes the object just enough so that something is out of order. The Subconscious Sink looks like a standard sink, but it doesn't work the way you would expect. Two sets of holes replace the faucet fixtures and there is no drain in the basin for water to seep through. The artist said, "Looking back now at why I built sculptures of sinks, I can remember sinks that I knew as a child, a recurring dream of a roomful of sinks with water flowing through them." |
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