Vito Acconci, Untitled

ca. 1980

A small shell lamp is placed on a narrow pedestal, the awkwardness of the proportions bringing viewers in to question the nature of what they are looking at. Acconci developed a diverse body of work in poetry, criticism, performance art, sound, film, video, photography, and sculpture, moving away from performance to sculptural works by the late 1970s. The size of Acconci’s sculptures continued to grow until he was making public art on a grand scale.