Matthew Barney
Transexualis, 1991

Artwork Info

Artwork title
Transexualis
Artist name
Matthew Barney
Date created
1991
Classification
installation
Medium
walk-in cooler, formed and cast petroleum jelly decline bench, human chorionic gonadotropin, speculum, self-lubricating plastic flight blocks with videotapes: "Mile High Threshold: Flight with the Anal Sadistic Warrior" and "Delay of Game"
Dimensions
102 × 162 1/4 × 139 1/4 in. (259.1 × 412.2 × 353.8 cm)
Date acquired
1991
Credit
Collection SFMOMA
Accessions Committee Fund purchase: gift of Collectors' Forum, Byron R. Meyer, Norah and Norman Stone, and Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Walker, Jr.
Copyright
© Matthew Barney
Permanent URL
https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/91.97.A-MM
Artwork status
Not on view at this time.

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