Hanging Man / Sleeping Man

Robert Gober's *Hanging Man / Sleeping Man* is a screenprinted wallpaper featuring two repeating male figures — one suspended as if hanged, the other peacefully at rest — arranged in an unsettling, cyclical pattern. The work juxtaposes themes of death and sleep, violence and tranquility, inviting meditation on vulnerability, the body, and the thin boundary between the two states. Presented as a full roll and framed as a scroll, the piece transforms a domestic material into a charged and psychologically resonant object.