Whitney Biennial 2026

Cooper Jacoby created Mutual Life after his health insurance company offered him a discount if he took a genetic test that measured his “biological age”—an estimate of health that does not always correlate to the number of years someone has lived. The sculptures take the form of clocks, with minute and second hands made from real teeth. Each clock functions as a kind of portrait based on a different individual’s test, tracking its subject’s biological time by moving faster or slower than standard time.