All Photos By Gail
As with so many of Robert Gober’s classic works of the 1990s, the artist approached Short Haired Cheese (1992 – 93) by researching the archetypal forms of his chosen subject, landing here on an unmistakable, yellow-tinged wedge of Swiss cheese, complete with air bubble holes.
The Cheese Stands Alone . . .
The hair that appears to grow out of the rind (clippings from one of his studio assistants) adds a haunting, anthropomorphic cast. Throughout this artist’s work, impeccably rendered objects associated with a nostalgic, mid-twentieth century domesticity — comestibles such as butter, gin or donuts, or home-maintenance products like house paint, light bulbs, or rat poison — are made strange, even unsettlingly queasy, through the artist’s distinctive interventions and allusions to a body in pieces.
Photographed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.
Hello there, I am writing because I wanted to get in contact with the photographer Gail. I was interested using her images of Robert Gober “Short Haired Cheese” (with her permission of course). I am a researcher/ student working on a dissertation on the relationship between food and body. Please contact back at artisy1323@gmail.com. Thank you for your time, and I hope to year from you soon!