Felix Gonzalez-Torrez

Felix Gonzalez-Torres created an installation that is essentially a pile of individually wrapped sweets. The installation weights approximately 175 pounds that resembles the 175-pound body of the artists boyfriend who had died of AIDS in 1991. As each person takes a sweet they act as the disease that piece by piece took away the artists boyfriend. Felix Gonzalez-Torres, who dedicated his artwork to the one he love and lost, died in 1996 of AIDS. The sweets can also represent love and affection.