"Untitled"

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

1991

A site-specific billboard by Felix Gonzalez-Torres that repurposes an advertising structure to display a large photographic image of rumpled white bed sheets, turning a public surface into an intimate, contemplative intervention.

A monumental close-up of soft, crumpled sheets hovers above a busy street and elevated track, its domestic quiet and tactile folds strikingly at odds with the city’s hard lines, traffic, and storefronts.

Part of Gonzalez-Torres’s practice of inserting private images into commercial formats, this work quietly memorializes personal loss—notably in the context of the AIDS crisis—while challenging the boundaries between public advertising and personal memory and inviting open interpretation.

Palette

Exhibitions

Committed to Print

1988

Printed, Cut, Folded, and Torn

1974

A Penthouse Aviary

1980

A Museum Menagerie

1975