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Erwin Wurm — Inspection (from Instructions on how to be politically incorrect)
Erwin Wurm

Inspection (from Instructions on how to be politically incorrect)

2003

A suited figure performs an absurd act of self-inspection, pressing his face directly against a wall in a gesture that conflates bureaucratic compliance with physical submission. Wurm transforms the body into a site of comedic yet unsettling instruction, reducing human behavior to a series of arbitrary, rule-bound poses. The chromogenic print, housed in the artist's own frame, extends Wurm's signature "One Minute Sculptures" philosophy into a deadpan critique of authority, conformity, and political correctness.

Medium
chromogenic print, in artist's frame

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Erwin Wurm, Inspection (from Instructions on how to be politically incorrect), 2003

A suited figure performs an absurd act of self-inspection, pressing his face directly against a wall in a gesture that conflates bureaucratic compliance with physical submission. Wurm transforms the body into a site of comedic yet unsettling instruction, reducing human behavior to a series of arbitrary, rule-bound poses. The chromogenic print, housed in the artist's own frame, extends Wurm's signature "One Minute Sculptures" philosophy into a deadpan critique of authority, conformity, and political correctness.

Medium
chromogenic print, in artist's frame
Year
2003
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Performance Photography, Figurative Photography, Male Artist, Conceptual Art, Instructional Art, Contemporary Artist, Framed Print, Political Commentary, Chromogenic Print, Austrian Artist, Late 20th Century, Satirical Tone

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