Plywood, forged iron, plaster, latex paint, lights, stainless steel, painted cast bronze, water, metal, lightbulbs, cast plaster with casein and silkscreen ink, photolithography on archival paper, twine, and hand-painted mural. Glenstone

Gober conceived this installation for a 1992 exhibition at the Dia Center for the Arts in Chelsea. All three rooms of that original presentation are reconstructed here: an antechamber, a central gallery, and a dark cul-de-sac. The main space features a hand-painted mural that depicts a forest inspired by the landscape of Long Island’s North Fork, executed in a paint-by-number method by scenic painters. Barred prison windows, through which a blue sky is visible, interrupt the verdant panorama. Placed throughout the gallery are hand-painted plaster sculptures of boxes of rat bait and bundles of newspapers—actually photolithographic facsimiles of newspapers featuring real and invented content. After a six-year absence from Gober’s work, sinks reappeared in the installation at Dia, water now running freely from their faucets.