
VB35.270.MST; VB35.330.MST from Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Two chromogenic prints by Vanessa Beecroft document her live performance at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, capturing a tableau of models standing in silent, near-motionless arrangement within the iconic rotunda. The photographs preserve the tension between the human body and institutional space, with the figures' uniformity and stillness evoking themes of objectification, identity, and the aestheticization of the female form. Flush-mounted and presented as a pair, the prints blur the boundary between performance documentation and autonomous works of art.
- Medium
- Two chromogenic prints, flush-mounted.
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
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Photographs
November 3, 2016
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