"In Gonzalez-Torres's world, vision itself must always be queried, as it is inexorably informed by and constructed through cultural ideologies. But it is also through vision that one can reinvent the universe, infusing the most mundane objects with an undeniable poetry. For Gonzalez-Torres, two glowing light bulbs transmute into a pair of inseparable lovers, a gauze curtain gently fluttering in the breeze incarnates the memory of a departed friend, and a heap of brightly wrapped candies becomes a sensorial body.", extract from the text by Nancy Spector

