GOBER, Robert
(*1954)
GOBER, Robert (12 September 1954). The installations of Gober are the most consistently recognizable examples of the theme of abjection: the conception and rendition of the human body as the site of poisons and morbid excretions, making the body emblematic of death and marking the physical person as repulsive to society and an outcast. Gober evokes the theme by creating stiff and partial figures that he punctures with holes and frequently metal sink drains and then lays on the floor in…