What is work? Is it a HERB?, 2019 

by Gareth Long

archival digital print

24 x 18 in (61 x 46 cm) unframed

edition of 10

This is adapted from a window installation I did at Super Dakota in Brussels in the summer of 2017. The gallery installed this for the period they were closed for summer holidays. This is what I wrote for that:

 What is work? Is it a HERB?”

ARTISTS: […] What they do can’t be called work.
G. Flaubert

What does it mean for a gallery to be on vacation? Since what they – as an extension of what artists do – isn’t really work, what are they holidaying from?

- Gareth Long