Death Mask

Death Mask continues the exploration of the torments of identity, a dynamic dear to Robert Gober since his emergence on the art scene in the late 1970s. Following the tradition of the death mask, which aims to preserve the features of the deceased to maintain their presence among the living, Gober creates a hybrid figure, merging his own face with a cast of the muzzle of his dog Paco, who passed away in 2008, as if the canine companion's identity had ended up imprinted on the human being he accompanied. In Robert Gober's work, the boundary between inside and outside, normality and strangeness, natural and composite, remains blurred, weaving the contours of a complex and troubled world, never fully defined.