Show Me On The Photo Where Jordan Wolfson Retouched You

Jordan Wolfson, 8(L), 2026, Hand polished aluminum, aluminum spikes, digital UV substrate print on aluminum of an altered photograph of Felix Gonzalez-Torres by David Seidner with automotive clearcoat, 56 x 88 x 11 1/16 (lol) in., ed. 1+1AP, $275,000 at Gagosian “An altered photograph of Felix Gonzalez-Torres?” What did he do? The 1994 David Seidner portrait was published in an obituary/remembrance of Félix González Torres by curator Gerardo Mosquera, published in the May 1996 issue of Artforum. David Seidner, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, 1994, published in Artforum (05/96), upside down The coloring, the higher-resolution texture of the t-shirt, the wider crop, all could be considered “altering” a photograph. But the most obvious alteration is the orientation: Wolfson straightened Felix out. Whether this is the extent of the alterations, the mundanity of rotating a photo originally published—and, presumably, taken—upside-down soon becomes normalized and almost invisible. It’s easy to…