- Artist
- Rebecca Horn born 1944
- Original title
- Überstromer
- Medium
- Glass, metal, plastic and water pump
- Dimensions
- Object: 1670 × 720 × 430 mm, 40kg
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased with assistance from Tate Members 2002
- Reference
- T07843
Display caption
Horn’s machine evokes medical apparatus, though its function remains unclear. Horn says of this piece, ‘the performer is tied up on top of a glass container (more an aquarium), tubes surrounding his body. Blood pumps, slowly, circulated through the glass container through the plastic tubes; enclosing his body like a pulsing garment of veins [it] forces the evolution of the motionless person into being an extension of the mechanism itself’.
Gallery label, September 2004
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