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03/29/2025 - 05/17/2025
ROBERT MORAT
Linienstraße 107
10115 Berlin
https://www.robertmorat.de/
‘Gong Co.’ is a long-form, monumental memento mori to the decline, death, and decay of a small grocery store in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, made over 20 years between 2003 and 2023. When US artist Christian Patterson first discovered the store, it was still open for business, its shelves scattered with decades-old, expired products; an odd, unintentional time capsule seemingly fulfilling Andy Warhol’s prophecy that ‘Someday, all department stores will become museums and all museums will become department stores.’
Over the course of many years, Patterson revisited and documented the store, first as it was going out of business and then after it was closed with the products on its shelves left to rot.
ROBERT MORAT
Linienstraße 107
10115 Berlin
https://www.robertmorat.de/
‘Gong Co.’ is a long-form, monumental memento mori to the decline, death, and decay of a small grocery store in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, made over 20 years between 2003 and 2023. When US artist Christian Patterson first discovered the store, it was still open for business, its shelves scattered with decades-old, expired products; an odd, unintentional time capsule seemingly fulfilling Andy Warhol’s prophecy that ‘Someday, all department stores will become museums and all museums will become department stores.’
Over the course of many years, Patterson revisited and documented the store, first as it was going out of business and then after it was closed with the products on its shelves left to rot.