Nude Descending a Staircase
This Is Not A Nude Descending a Staircase
Steel (used railroad track, meat hook, cable)
144” x 6” x 5.5” (dimensions variable)
This Is Not A Nude Descending a Staircase combines a meat hook and a section of railroad track left over from the Holocaust & Genocide Memorial.
I meticulously cut and reassembled 200 slivers of the track, strung the ordered pieces on a cable, and hung it off the meat hook from the gallery's rafters like a slaughtered animal.
Site-specific installation for the exhibition “The Seduction of Duchamp”
Slaughterhouse Gallery, Healdsburg, CA 2009