Felix Gonzalez-Torres
"One of the pieces for which he got wide recognition about eight years ago was this billboard project. Images of an empty bed appeared on commercial billboards around the city. What was great about this piece is that as it was situated in the public domain without any explanatory text, everyone who saw it could interpret the piece differently.There was something incredibly sad about it. The implication to me was that now the bed doesn’t have two people in it. Something has happened. Something is missing. Something is absent. To me, I saw it as a testimonial to his lover, who had died. So you don’t literally have the information, it’s completely enigmatic in its way, but it has some sort of lingering emotional impact on you. You bring all of your stuff to it and you go, ‘What’s with that bed?’"
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