“[Gober’s sculptures are ] specific, recognizable things, related deeply to everyday life, yet uncannily possessing something unknown, perhaps unexpected, that would appear somehow in the activity of making. To make things meant bringing them to the precipitous brink between the real and the strange.”
Elisabeth Sussman, “Robert Gober: Installation and Sculpture,” in Exh. Cat., Basel, Schaulager Basel, Robert Gober. Work 1979-2007, 2007, p. 19