I Forgot What I Was Going to Say

Jimmie Durham

1992

Sculpture, 78 x 55 x 5 cm.
Materials: Wood, metal, bone, paper, wire

Collection: Courtesy Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp (Inv. no. JD90).

A revolver, separated from its trigger by a piece of wood, has been rendered useless. As if in a surreal dream, the object is deprived from its basic function and gains subjectivity. It is paralyzed, lost for words, as the piece of paper gives in: “I forgot what I was going to say”.

This artwork was part of Jimmie Durham’s installation at the Whitney Biennial in 1993.

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Whitney Biennial

1993.
Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Read a New York Times' article about the 1993 edition of the biennial here.

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