Had to clean up a closet to make room for diapers. Inside a cardboard tube was this ancient print fr
Had to clean up a closet to make room for diapers. Inside a cardboard tube was this ancient print from an old Felix Gonzalez-Torres piece. It was like a time capsule and a time machine both at once. If you don’t know Felix’s work (RIP, gentle soul) one component of it was the simple act of isolating and then replicating the tiny bits of detritus that revealed the country we were actually living in. Most came from the then-contemporary copies of the New York Times, generally late 80s early 90s. I think this must have been 1991 or so. The thing is that they were always juxtaposed against the HIV that he was fighting, and in this way, even in the moment they felt like desperate messages to the future. Felix, there is no way you can read this, but it’s just to say, it’s 2016 and the message was received. Thank you. -- source link