Robert Gober

Heart in a Box
2014–2015

A cardboard box is open, revealing a single red bell pepper nestled on a bed of packing material. The box has symbols indicating which side should face up and that it contains fragile contents.
A cardboard box is open, revealing a single red bell pepper nestled on a bed of packing material. The box has symbols indicating which side should face up and that it contains fragile contents.

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Date
2014–2015

Classification
Sculpture

Medium
Corrugated aluminum, cast glass, paper, plaster, and ink

Dimensions
Overall: 6 1/2 × 10 1/2 × 11 11/16in. (16.5 × 26.7 × 29.7 cm)

Accession number
2015.156a-c

Edition
AP 1/3 | Ed. 5

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art

Rights and reproductions
© Robert Gober

API
artworks/47945

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