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 in. × 162 1/4 in. × 139 1/4 in. (259.08 cm × 412.12 cm × 353.7 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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