About this artwork
Double Sink is exactly what it seems—a domestic basin with holes where the taps typically go. Gober’s sink shows signs of being handmade and is missing the hardware and plumbing fixtures of a functional object. The discrete modifications to this now-functionless form suggest anthropomorphic associations: the dark holes resemble bodily orifices, and the softly curving corners and lip of the sink are likewise creaturely. An early example from the artist’s sink series (1983-86), Double Sink draws from Gober’s imagination as well as his memories and experiences of the first years of the AIDS epidemic. The object takes on an expressive role as a coded symbol of memory and loss, mystery and regret, humor and pathos.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Contemporary Art
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Artist
- Robert Gober
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Title
- Double Sink
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Place
- United States (Object made in:)
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Date
- Made 1984
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Medium
- Latex and enamel on plaster, wood, wire lath, and steel
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Dimensions
- 83.8 × 152.4 × 68.6 cm (33 × 60 × 27 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Donna and Howard Stone
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Reference Number
- 2015.646
Extended information about this artwork
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