2013–ongoingPhotography / Social Sculpture
The Kiss
Marble pedestal. Visitors become the work. Social media as the permanent archive. 2013–ongoing.
A marble pedestal. Visitors are invited to stand on it and perform an act of affection with another person. They photograph the moment and post it using #lbthekiss.
The pedestal is the operative element. In the institutional history of display, the pedestal is the device that designates its occupant as art. It is not decorative — it is a declaration. Placing a person on it transfers that designation. The visitor does not interact with the artwork. The visitor becomes it.
The photograph posted to Instagram or Facebook is not documentation. It is the work in its completed form. The social media archive — distributed, user-maintained, outside any institutional control — becomes the permanent collection. As of 2026, that collection contains every act of affection performed on the pedestal since 2013, held across servers the artists do not own, maintained by platforms the artists did not build, accessible to anyone without an admission fee.
The work raises one question it does not answer: between the artist who placed the pedestal and the person who stood on it, who made the artwork?
Marble pedestal. Ongoing since 2013.
The pedestal is the operative element. In the institutional history of display, the pedestal is the device that designates its occupant as art. It is not decorative — it is a declaration. Placing a person on it transfers that designation. The visitor does not interact with the artwork. The visitor becomes it.
The photograph posted to Instagram or Facebook is not documentation. It is the work in its completed form. The social media archive — distributed, user-maintained, outside any institutional control — becomes the permanent collection. As of 2026, that collection contains every act of affection performed on the pedestal since 2013, held across servers the artists do not own, maintained by platforms the artists did not build, accessible to anyone without an admission fee.
The work raises one question it does not answer: between the artist who placed the pedestal and the person who stood on it, who made the artwork?
Marble pedestal. Ongoing since 2013.