US Navy Seals, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego - vb39.290.te

A meticulously staged performance work by Vanessa Beecroft featuring uniformed US Navy SEALs arranged in a formal, static tableau within the institutional space of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. The piece explores the intersection of military identity, masculinity, and spectacle, transforming armed servicemen into living sculptures that blur the boundaries between power, display, and aesthetics. As with much of Beecroft's practice, the work interrogates themes of uniformity, hierarchy, and the human body as both subject and object of the gaze.